Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 19:30 on Friday 15 October 2010, Florian > Philipp did opine thusly: > [...] >> Just out of curiosity: I thought LibreOffice is just a renamed >> OpenOffice because of trademark issues with Oracle and not even the name >> is fixed for the moment. Doesn't that mean that the OpenOffice ebuilds >> will slowly migrate to LibreOffice, anyway? When I look at the version >> number, OpenOffice is currently at 3.2.1 and LibreOffice from >> geki-overlay at 3.2.99.1. > > > LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.org. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. > Especially don't let Oracle tell you otherwise. > > Read the press release on The Document Foundation's website for the truth.
>From what I've been reading, it is indeed a fork of OpenOffice which now happens to have just the code from OpenOffice and go-oo. But the future will tell us if there will be enough differences to justify an ebuild. As it's now a different project, it's pretty possible differences will arise. It also depends on whether Oracle and go-oo will want to incorporate changes from LibreOffice. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
