On 4 December 2013 20:10, Andrew Rist <andrew.r...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On 12/4/2013 10:19 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> >> wrote: >> >> From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] >>>> I have no problem to make this more public. If LO want to be >>>> independent >>>> they should not use our package names, binary names etc. >>>> >>> in fact, so you're absolutely right. I am a normal Linux user and the >>> situation on Linux is extremely confusing. >>> >>> But what can we do? I think here are problems that need to be resolved >>> legally. >>> >>> >>> Greetings, >>> Jörg >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >>> >>> One of the "confusing" issues comes from LO's continued use of >> "soffice" as >> the launchpad binary. We've been down this road before to no avail. >> >> See, for example -- >> >> http://www.libreoffice.org/developers/ >> >> On SOME distros who handle this a little better/politely, the LO binary >> has been renamed to "libreoffice", and a symlink from "soffice" to >> libreoffice (/usr/bin/libreoffice --a custom packaging ) is supplied >> which >> can easily be removed. >> > I believe we should create a plan to have a binary named openoffice with a > symlink to soffice. > +1 we need to protect the copy right. The longer we allow the distros to use openoffice, the less likely it is that they will (and need to) change. rgds jan I. We should announce this very publicly and communicate to LO and the distros > when we make the change. > This would also be a good topic to discuss with LO at FOSDEM this year. > It would be good to get agreement from LO that they agree with this > approach and will (over time) implement this across all of the distros (as > it is a reasonable and fair way to deal with the overlap between the > products) > > A. > > >> bottom line -- even if we are successful in getting AOO into some >> repositories, how to deal with this naming clash. >> >> Maybe someone who has downloaded LO packages directly from their site can >> provide more information. >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
