On 12/4/2013 10:19 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote:
From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com]
I have no problem to make this more public. If LO want to be
independent
they should not use our package names, binary names etc.
in fact, so you're absolutely right. I am a normal Linux user and the
situation on Linux is extremely confusing.
But what can we do? I think here are problems that need to be resolved
legally.
Greetings,
Jörg
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One of the "confusing" issues comes from LO's continued use of "soffice" as
the launchpad binary. We've been down this road before to no avail.
See, for example --
http://www.libreoffice.org/developers/
On SOME distros who handle this a little better/politely, the LO binary
has been renamed to "libreoffice", and a symlink from "soffice" to
libreoffice (/usr/bin/libreoffice --a custom packaging ) is supplied which
can easily be removed.
I believe we should create a plan to have a binary named openoffice with
a symlink to soffice.
We should announce this very publicly and communicate to LO and the
distros when we make the change.
This would also be a good topic to discuss with LO at FOSDEM this
year. It would be good to get agreement from LO that they agree with
this approach and will (over time) implement this across all of the
distros (as it is a reasonable and fair way to deal with the overlap
between the products)
A.
bottom line -- even if we are successful in getting AOO into some
repositories, how to deal with this naming clash.
Maybe someone who has downloaded LO packages directly from their site can
provide more information.
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