Re: [arch-dev-public] Kingsoft Office License

2014-04-02 Thread Felix Yan
On Tuesday, April 01, 2014 14:14:35 Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > It looks quite OK to me, so I'm supporting this. They have quite good > support for the proprietary formats. Bonus points for that they are > willing to communicate and fix the problems, which isn't that common > with proprietary software

Re: [arch-dev-public] Kingsoft Office License

2014-04-01 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Felix Yan wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got an updated license from Kingsoft, most of the problems should have > been addressed (except for the PRC export laws problem, which doesn't seem to > be avoidable, but should not be a problem if I read the laws correctly...) > >

Re: [arch-dev-public] Kingsoft Office License

2014-03-30 Thread Felix Yan
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 21:31:50 Allan McRae wrote: > - Distributed as a deb file > - Requires libpng12 (why is that in [community]...) > - I don't trust licenses with multiple obvious typos > - Is linking at runtime "integrating" with other software > - Are dontations to Arch counted as us maki

Re: [arch-dev-public] Kingsoft Office License

2014-03-18 Thread Felix Yan
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 06:41:47 Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2014-03-18 16:34:23 +0800] Felix Yan: > > I recently received a license from Kingsoft to redistribute the office > > productivity suite "kingsoft-office", and I want your opinion about if it > > looks good to us, or if any modifications ha

Re: [arch-dev-public] Kingsoft Office License

2014-03-18 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-03-18 16:34:23 +0800] Felix Yan: > I recently received a license from Kingsoft to redistribute the office > productivity suite "kingsoft-office", and I want your opinion about if it > looks good to us, or if any modifications have to be made. I skimmed through the license and Section 2 ind

Re: [arch-dev-public] Kingsoft Office License

2014-03-18 Thread Andreas Radke
Arch philosophy is to provide an open source software distribution. We do allow exceptions where open source software is not available or in very poor shape. I can't see how this office suite would fit this. I'm generally for avoiding closed stuff wherever possible. -1 -Andy signature.asc De

Re: [arch-dev-public] Kingsoft Office License

2014-03-18 Thread Felix Yan
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'm going to give some quick answers to what I have in mind: On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 21:31:50 Allan McRae wrote: > - Distributed as a deb file > - Requires libpng12 (why is that in [community]...) I've mentioned this to them just one day ago. Actually the PKGBUI

Re: [arch-dev-public] Kingsoft Office License

2014-03-18 Thread Allan McRae
On 18/03/14 18:34, Felix Yan wrote: > Hi, > > I recently received a license from Kingsoft to redistribute the office > productivity suite "kingsoft-office", and I want your opinion about if it > looks good to us, or if any modifications have to be made. > > The product is an office suite writte

[arch-dev-public] Kingsoft Office License

2014-03-18 Thread Felix Yan
Hi, I recently received a license from Kingsoft to redistribute the office productivity suite "kingsoft-office", and I want your opinion about if it looks good to us, or if any modifications have to be made. The product is an office suite written in C++ and Qt, including three components: Writ