LibreOffice on Fedora
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 20:20:54 UTC 2011
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 03:14:12 pm Rahul Sundaram did opine:
> On 01/27/2011 12:44 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Packages are in the repository because someone is volunteering to
> >> maintain them. No because of any voting.
> >
> > So if someone from Oracle choose to build and maintain it for Fedora
> > and cleared any trademark issues, it would be okay?.
>
> It doesn't require a person from Oracle. *Anyone* interested enough to
> volunteer can do it.
>
> > Isn´t "Firefox" also trademaked by Mozilla Inc.? Am I missing
> > something?
>
> I didn't say anything about trademarks but anyone volunteering to
> package any software has to take into consideration the trademark
> guidelines of the software in question. For Firefox, if you patch it
> without upstream signing off on the patches, you will have to rename the
> software. I don't think there are any problems with Openoffice.org
> trademark for the purposes of packaging it in Fedora.
>
> Rahul
What about LibreOffice?
IMO it should be one or the other, and given the politics involved, I
personally would prefer that LibreOffice gets the nod by most of the
distro's that do not somehow, have a dog in this fight.
Interestingly, I note that a day after LO announces a final 3.3, so does
OOo. To me that brings up a question that is OT for this list, but if you
let your imagination out to play without a chaperon, you all will ask it
too.
--
Cheers, Gene
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