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 12:11, skrifaði Sveinn í Felli:
> 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

Better link here:
<http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=libreoffice-branding&baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.4&lang=en&exclude_debug=true>

Regards,
Sveinn


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