[Libreoffice] LibreOffice licensing

2011-06-04 Thread Allen Pulsifer
If I understand correctly: What is developed by the Apache license can be used at LibreOffice but what is done by LibreOffice can not be used by OpenOffice as OpenOffice would move to offer the principles of under the GPL. I'm not sure this is entirely correct. TDF allowed itself some license

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-04 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Hello All, I'm going to try to address as many of the concerns raised as I can in one email. I'm not suggesting that anyone go work for IBM. In fact, I'm suggesting just the opposite; I'm suggesting that we all work together to get IBM working for us. Here's the deal. IBM is the main

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-04 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Hello Kohei, Thank you for your reply. I can certainly understand your sentiment, and I completely respect it. Just to clarify one thing: Suggesting that we somehow owe anything to them just because of the past is, to put it mildly insane, and in some way insulting. I certainly never made

[Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-03 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Greetings All, Some of you will remember me as a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community. In fact, back in the day, it was sometimes just myself and Michael Meeks who were openly complaining on the OOo mailing list about Sun's handling of the community :-) I'm writing today about what

[Libreoffice] OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Allen Pulsifer
See the thread titled OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal post on June 1 by Luke Kowalski of Oracle http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/threa d ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: [Libreoffice] Installing beta versions replacing stable versions

2011-04-27 Thread Allen Pulsifer
On Windows it wants to package jre which is not there. So: $ touch ../../solver/300/wntmsci12.pro/bin/jre-6u22-windows-i586.exe $ dmake openofficedev OK, so there's a bug. It should only attempt to include the JRE when you build openofficewithjre target - so apparently the Product name

[Libreoffice] FW: [PATCH] Introduce HideDisabledMenuItems style setting

2011-04-27 Thread Allen Pulsifer
I'm introducing a setting that decides if disabled menu items should be hidden. Currently the code is broken in the sense that items are hidden if disabled on all platforms and UpdateApplicationSettings which theortically does that is a) counter-intuitive and b) not set by platforms. I'm

Re: [Libreoffice] FW: [PATCH] Introduce HideDisabledMenuItems style setting

2011-04-27 Thread Allen Pulsifer
No objections from my part to fully hide, removed / not-allowed-by-sysadmin ones, but when it comes to hiding entries that cannot be performed at the moment for whatever reason, then I say no, thanks. That is the way it currently works under Windows. The former uses a permanent switch, while

Re: [Libreoffice] Installing beta versions replacing stable versions

2011-04-26 Thread Allen Pulsifer
I would +100 this suggestion. AFAIK, under Windows, there is no easy way to do a side-by-side installation, and certainly no way within the reach of a typical user. Without the ability to do a side-by-side, many users are not going to test the Beta builds, and the quality of the release will