On 7 February 2013 13:20, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 2/7/13 8:59 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Rob Weir wrote: > >>> But I would have trademark concerns if a statement like this installed > >>> anything but OpenOffice: > >>> sudo yum install openoffice.org > >> > >> It doesn't. But indeed the openoffice.org alias has been discussed and > I > >> hope we can get it reassigned or dropped without invoking trademarks. > >> Anyway, it is not one of the technically problematic aliases but just a > >> convenience alias, so it can be addressed after we have packages ready. > >> > > > > We should argue that the aliases came from OpenOffice and that they were > > hijacked if you want by LibreOffice. They even used the package name in > > the past to install LibreOffice and not OpenOffice. We tolerated it > > because we had no updated version in place with the latest security > > fixes. But that's it and the game changed, we have a current version and > > will provide future versions. > > > > It comes down to user confusion. We've already seen users confused by > this, where they think they are installing OpenOffice and instead get > something else. This is classic trademark infringement. You can't > offer bottles of Coca-Cola for to consumers and then fill the bottles > with Pepsi. > If it is so classic, then for sure the ASF laywers could inform Fedora about the problem, and ask them to correct it, independently of whether or not AOO is distribtuted. I assume that since they are the distributors they need to make sure that their contributors uses valid trademarks.
This might be a problem on other distros as well. Or is life not as simple as I think ? rgds Jan I > > > And again changing soffice means much more work and I really don't see > > why we should change it because they belong to OpenOffice. > > > > Some magic UNO bootstrap code used by UNO client applications used the > > soffice alias for example. Changing it would break potential client > > applications. > > > > The other aliases like oowriter are obvious where they come from, why > > should we change them? > > > > It is important to come back in distros but we should not easy give up > > what belongs to OpenOffice. > > > > Juergen > > > > >
