On Sunday, December 21, 2014, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> -- in reply to -- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;>] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 13:37 > To: [email protected] <javascript:;> > Subject: Re: Deflecting the Attack of the Clones > > Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > However, there are now apparent forks of AOO, such as AndrOpen Office > > (boldly dubbed "AOO" and which seems to confuse some folks even > > though it is described as a fork and as not associated with the > project). > > We are in good relationship with the author. The current branding and > wording of "AndrOpen Office" were approved by the OpenOffice PMC. If any > changes are needed, feel free to suggest them. It is an unofficial port, > but it is also as close as possible to OpenOffice. > > > <orcnote> > My correspondent notices that there are appropriate disclaimers > on the AndrOpen Office "AOO" web page. > > In a follow-up sent to me, I am told that the installed software > identifies itself as Apache OpenOffice and all of the branding of > Apache OpenOffice is present. > > I think it is important that a fork *not* do that, and that such > identifications, including any links to support addresses and > for pinging updates be corrected. (I don't have an answer for > the on-line help or identification of AndrOpen-specific topics > on the OpenOffice Forums.) > </orcnote> I highly agree but the problem is that our official source tar ball contain all the branding, so people who fork fork do nothing wrong. maybe the right way to go is to remove the branding from the source tree and only add them in the build process. rgds jan it > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > <javascript:;> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > <javascript:;> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > <javascript:;> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > <javascript:;> > > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
