Re: Availability of source code (Was: Re: OFF TOPIC about GPL enforcement (Was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice))

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:18:34 +0200
Jesús Corrius <jesus@softcatala.org> wrote:

> > 1. We want to add a paragraph somewhere in the About dialog box
> > which says that if we are interested in the source code, we should
> > read a specific Wiki page,
> > for example
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/AvailabilityOfSourceCode
>
> I see a problem here. Usually GNU/Linux distributions make
> modifications to the original source code. That means that the *real*
> source code will be the one from your distro and not the one you can
> download from the LibO website, hence the information will be
> misleading.

In this case the distributions could modifiy the about box as well and
change the link accordingly... 
Or just add an additional link to their specific version.

> We provide all the required source tarballs for each version and every
> piece of code is in our git repository. So we fulfill all the
> requirements but we have the problem that it's not easy to find. I
> guess writing a good text about how to get the source code for every
> version and place it in our download page (or a link to the wiki page)
> is good enough.

Should be sufficient as well.

Manfred


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Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m@icg-online.de>

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