plino <pedlino <at> gmail.com> writes: > From my limited knowledge I would say the ODF add-in is still open source > (but seems to be abandoned). > > http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/ > > In my opinion it would be strategic to TDF (in colaboration with OASIS) to > revive this project.
Please no. We who have had to look at that codebase and even fix some problems in it are glad that it is abandoned. It is a huge unmaintainable pile of XSLT, and then some silly C# code around that. (I don't mean C# is silly as such, I *like* C# very much in general, but the odf-converter C# code is a bit silly. As to XSLT, I am not an expert, maybe if one has the right tools it is maintainable, but I certainly don't have any such tools.) (And yeah, I know what mentioning C# will cause... To make the flames even hotter, let me remind you that the odf-converter project was funded by Microsoft.) Furthermore, this allegedly Open Source project (hosted on soureforge) includes (for the benefit of its use as a plug-in to MS Office; not relevant when used from OOo) some binary bits with unclear (IANAL) redistribution license. Fun. --tml -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
