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

Þann þri 21.jún 2011 11:18, skrifaði Simos Xenitellis:
> 2011/6/21 Jesús Corrius<jesus@softcatala.org>:
> > > 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.
>
> As far as I know, the distributions make minimal or no changes
> to the actually code of LibreOffice. The best they will do is add
> packaging instructions.
> If you have information of a distribution that performs extensive
> LibreOffice development
> and did not bother to contribute them upstream, then please tell us
> who they are.

At least OpenSuse does more than that; they've been doing 
extensive 'branding' of both OOo and LO for quite some time.

Example:
<http://software.opensuse.org/search/download?base=openSUSE%3A11.4&file=openSUSE%3A%2FTumbleweed%3A%2FTesting%2FopenSUSE_Tumbleweed_standard%2Fnoarch%2Flibreoffice-branding-openSUSE-3.3.1-1.1.noarch.rpm&query=libreoffice-branding>

Regards,
Sveinn í Felli


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