On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:17 AM, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Currently we have AndrOffice listed as a "port" -- http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ What this means to me is the 3rd party MUST identify itself as Apache OpenOffice. This is different than a fork. So, they SHOULD NOT re-brand. This goes against our trademark policy. See our distribution page -- http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/ But...they should identify that their product is Apache OpenOffice. I've copied "private" on this reply so we can investigate and discuss further. > > > > > 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. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out." -- Lou Reed
