Hi Rob, On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 12:34:25PM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > I wonder if we can make this be more rational? > > For example, the About box currently says: "Copyright © 2012 Apache > Software Foundation. > All rights reserved." > > That needs to be changed to 2013, right?
Yes, please open a bug before we forget, and set it as blocker. > It also says, "This product was created by Apache Software Foundation, > based on Apache OpenOffice." > > That confuses me. It probably confuses users as well. Isn't this > Apache OpenOffice? Why are we saying "based on Apache OpenOffice" ? > I wonder if we can simply remove that line altogether. > > (Also, the Splash Screen makes a similar odd statement: "Build > contributed by member of the Apache OpenOffice community") > > Presumably these phrases came from earlier days when Sun or Oracle was > credited as the "contributor" of the executable. But I'm not sure > the distinction is important any more. The string in the About Dialog has a place holder: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/cui/source/dialogs/about.src?revision=1448713&view=markup#l76 "Copyright © 2012 Apache Software Foundation.\nAll rights reserved.\n\nThis product was created by %OOOVENDOR, based on Apache OpenOffice.\nApache OpenOffice acknowledges all community members, especially those mentioned at"; %OOOVENDOR is replaced with the value of OOOVENDOR in main/instsetoo_native/util/openoffice.lst or with a custom value set at build time if configured with --with-vendor. For example, --with-vendor="Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch\@apache.org)" turns out in http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/AboutDialog.png This all comes from Sun era http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/AboutDialog300.png http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/AboutDialog321.png It can still have some meaning: suppose someone in the ecosystem is building custom versions of AOO for their customers, they may want to configure with --with-vendor; they can even change the images in the dialog to whatever suits them (anyone can try this by changing the PNGs in the folder where the main executable file resides, about.png is the header of the dialog, logo.png is the main logo at the left), for example: http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/AboutDialogCustomImg.jpg Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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