Hi *, as requested by Thorsten and others many times, I’m starting a new thread to discuss an alternative proposal to the “attic” for LibreOffice Online. I think there has been, in the other thread, room enough to discuss about the status quo of Online and LibreOffice Viewer, which is in a similar situation. I also would like to emphasize the fact that, in the current situation, building a competing product starting from the frozen repo with no companies working on it and the one on GitHub 1 year ahead, would just be impossible.
Il 22/12/21 23:28, Jan Holesovsky ha scritto: > The code is still Free Software under the same MPL license, as it was > under TDF. The code is flourishing on GitHub, so the FLOSS world wins; > and only few people actually care if it is named "LibreOffice Online", > or "Collabora Online". Il 04/01/22 17:59, Thorsten Behrens ha scritto: > All remedies I can think of are much worse than the disease you'd like > to cure. And for companies, it is trivially easy to circumvent any > sort of contract that binds a particular company, but not the general > public. Based on this two quotes, I’d like to make a counterproposal for the online project: 1. Since not only Collabora-affiliated developers but almost everybody that was previously involved in development of Online moved on Github, contributing to Collabora’s repo, TDF should publicly endorse this choice, stating that the project is now hosted on Github and the development is managed by a company of the ecosystem but is – at the end of the day – always LibreOffice Online. 2. Provide stable libreoffice-branded builds (on a nightly/weekly basis) of LibreOffice Online on the Docker HUB (possibly also DEBs/RPMs) starting from the Collabora repository. This can either be done internally by TDF or tendered. 3. Update the documentation at TDF’s wiki. As above, internally done, volunteered or tendered. 4. Grant, as already happens e.g. for Play Store / Windows app store, the permission to release the builds with the “LibreOffice Online” trademark to companies of the ecosystem that ask for that. This 4 bullet points would allow, at least in my opinion, TDF to acknowledge Online as “still part of the LibreOffice ecosystem” and continue with his distribution/marketing, in order to build a real market surrounding LOOL. All the best, Marco -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
