> > Hi Christoph, > > On 13/12/16 06:26, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote: > >> Von: "Michael Meeks" <michael.me...@collabora.com> Of course, if > >> you can move on the licensing: ie. giving a license that is > >> compatible with our goals as a Free-Software project, then I > >> suspect TDF could give you some guarentee that at least the TDF > >> distribution of LibreOffice (which is some big chunk of the > >> user-base) will not itself be distributing a modified palette with > >> this name - might that work ? > > > > Regarding the licence, I think we can easily come to an agreement, > > since fF is not married to the current version: If TDF can guarantee > > that there are some safeguards in place to protect the integrity of > > the original SOC file in LibreOffice versions distributed by TDF, you > > can use the palette under the MPL 2.0, which seems to be the current > > LO licence. If necessary, we can also do this on paper with > > signatures from one German non-profit to another ;) > > Sounds perfect to me; lets proceed with this approach. > > In terms of signatures on paper - we can do that, but it will take some > significant effort. I suspect that we can achieve a similar result > socially anyway. > > What I propose is that - I take this to the ESC; and we think it > through & come up with a decision there, which we can minute. TDF has > really no interest in breaking your palette so my hope is that this is > easy to achieve. > > After that - I suggest, that you write a (normal) license statement for > the palette; and I'll respond to that referring to the ESC decision and > committing us to either not changing it in the TDF version. > > If that works for you, I hope we can close the topic ! =) the next ESC > call is on Thursday, and you're welcome to come of course; dial in > details are here: > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/ESC-call-Thursday-16-00-central-European-time-td4125102.html > > And thanks for being so flexible ! and of course for promoting > LibreOffice it is great to have smart & creative people involved with > our design community =)
Hi Michael, Thanks for the quick and positive reply. Please let me know about the results of the ESC meeting as soon as possible. I've already prepared an MLP-2.0-licensed SOC palette, which is waiting to be uploaded to the bugtracker. Best regards, Christoph -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
