[steering-discuss] Applications to check

2011-06-17 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Cor, Thanks a lot for replacing me during the last SC and MC meetings, the notice was quiet short, sorry for this. I'm back now and will be able to take care of my homework. I've almost read all the mails arrived the 4 last days (having a Leeloo reading mode integrated would be great ;)

Re: [steering-discuss] MC-meeting minutes 2011-06-16

2011-06-17 Thread sophie
Hi Norbert, all, On 16/06/2011 21:26, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: 2011/6/16 André Schnabelandre.schna...@gmx.net: Hi, meeting minutes are at the wiki: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership_Committee_Meetings#Minutes_2011-06-16 (Cor, Fridrich - please edit the wiki, if I forgot

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-17 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Dave, Norbert, On 10/06/2011 15:30, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, [...] First, thank you both for this discussion, I'm jumping here, just for a comment on the online Opal. OpenSTV is GPL, but only available for download for a fee. Really? News to me! It wasn't up until OpenSTV 1.6. I'd be

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

2011-06-17 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:56 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Thu, June 16, 2011 6:31:25 PM Subject: OFF TOPIC about GPL enforcement (Was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-17 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
Is there _any_ database that people use that doesn't have a JDBC driver at this point? Maybe we can keep our lives simple by only enabling JDBC drivers? Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On 06/12/2011 02:19 AM,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-17 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:06:16PM +0530, Marc-André Laverdière wrote: Is there _any_ database that people use that doesn't have a JDBC driver at this point? Maybe we can keep our lives simple by only enabling JDBC drivers? Make that ODBC and perhaps JDBC. Having LibreOffice depending on a

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/06/11 08:36, Marc-André Laverdière a écrit : Is there _any_ database that people use that doesn't have a JDBC driver at this point? Maybe we can keep our lives simple by only enabling JDBC drivers? Other than the fact that it would make LibreOffice even more dependent on Java

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

2011-06-17 Thread plino
BRM wrote: Directly from the FSF, authors of the GPL. You must have a copy of the written offer in order to be entitled to receipt of the source. It's amazing how you distort arguments to keep your own perspective. What the GPL says is that whoever gives you a copy of the program is

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org Product Roadmap: made by whom ? was: Re: [discuss] remove of binfilter module

2011-06-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Martin, Answering to the discuss AT TDF list as I'm not subscribed to the other ones... Le Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:39:54 +0200, Martin Hollmichel martin.hollmic...@googlemail.com a écrit : Hi Sam, Do you have a concrete proposal? yes, I have. First, I do not have any problems with

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org Product Roadmap: made by whom ? was: Re: [discuss] remove of binfilter module

2011-06-17 Thread drew
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 10:53 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello Martin, Answering to the discuss AT TDF list as I'm not subscribed to the other ones... Le Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:39:54 +0200, Martin Hollmichel martin.hollmic...@googlemail.com a écrit : Hi Sam, Do you have a

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org Product Roadmap: made by whom ? was: Re: [discuss] remove of binfilter module

2011-06-17 Thread sophie
Hi Drew, On 17/06/2011 13:34, drew wrote: [...] People in other countries are capable of directing their own affairs, I would think. Yes, and as we have seen with OOo, it works really well. Unless you are thinking of creating franchises, is that your goal? The idea, I think, come from me a

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org Product Roadmap: made by whom ? was: Re: [discuss] remove of binfilter module

2011-06-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:34:48 -0400, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 10:53 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello Martin, Answering to the discuss AT TDF list as I'm not subscribed to the other ones... Le Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:39:54 +0200, Martin

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org Product Roadmap: made by whom ? was: Re: [discuss] remove of binfilter module

2011-06-17 Thread drew
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:08 +0300, sophie wrote: Hi Drew, On 17/06/2011 13:34, drew wrote: [...] People in other countries are capable of directing their own affairs, I would think. Yes, and as we have seen with OOo, it works really well. Hi Sophie, Thanks for the quick reply. I do not

RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-17 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Allen, So - first, I've enjoyed interacting with you over many years around OO.o / LibreOffice :-) and I value many of your insights. On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 10:43 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: Thorsten Behrens wrote: .. I do not agree with your conclusion that the Apache OpenOffice

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org Product Roadmap: made by whom ? was: Re: [discuss] remove of binfilter module

2011-06-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:42:17 -0400, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:18 +, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:34:48 -0400, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 10:53 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello Martin,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-17 Thread Charles Jenkins
M. Henri Day wrote: Charles wrote: Now that we can find Bug 38244 under the section for voting on Enhancements to Writer, I'd like to ask everyone with an interest in this issue to please sign up and add your vote. If you use Track Changes to work with an editor, you probably need this

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org Product Roadmap: made by whom ? was: Re: [discuss] remove of binfilter module

2011-06-17 Thread drew
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:37 +, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: big snip? er... I don't know. Let's skip the word charter, because it might be meaning one word in my language (french) and another one -or a nuance of it- in English. Let's use the word: agreement instead. What several NGOs had told

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-17 Thread timofonic timofonic
10. ... 11. Profit! Are there plans to improve it? I've seen easier government bureaucracy stuff than that... On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Charles Jenkins cejperso...@tec-usa.com wrote: M. Henri Day wrote: Charles wrote: Now that we can find Bug 38244 under the section for voting on

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

2011-06-17 Thread BRM
DISCLAIMER: IANAL. Consult one for real legal advice if you need it. - Original Message From: plino pedl...@gmail.com BRM wrote: Directly from the FSF, authors of the GPL. You must have a copy of the written offer in order to be entitled to receipt of the source.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-17 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: The overlap between TDF ASF's goals for an office product (modulo enabling 'mixed-source') is a pretty compelling proof of competition. I disagree... competition implies a winner and a loser... in FOSS, how do you measure that? Market

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

2011-06-17 Thread plino
@BRM sorry to burst your fantasy world... We are not discussing some theoretical situation with A, B, C, D, etc This topic and this forum is about a PUBLIC free office suite (yes, I noticed you deliberately ignored my argument) In this case the GPL clearly says that the written license MUST be

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

2011-06-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: plino pedl...@gmail.com To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 10:12:01 AM Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC about GPL enforcement (Was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice) @BRM sorry to burst your fantasy

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org Product Roadmap: made by whom ? was: Re: [discuss] remove of binfilter module

2011-06-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On 17 June 2011 12:08, sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Drew, On 17/06/2011 13:34, drew wrote: [...] People in other countries are capable of directing their own affairs, I would think. Yes, and as we have seen with OOo, it works really well. Unless you are thinking of

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-17 Thread Keith Curtis
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: The overlap between TDF ASF's goals for an office product (modulo enabling 'mixed-source') is a pretty compelling proof of competition. I disagree...

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-17 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Keith Curtis wrote: I think it is a helpful exercise to have a starting position that forks are bad. They might be necessary and useful sometimes, like war, but that doesn't make them ideal. I'm not sure about that... Some forks are good, some are bad. It's

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: The overlap between TDF ASF's goals for an office product (modulo enabling 'mixed-source')

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-17 Thread Keith Curtis
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:08 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: And TDF/LO is the real fork in this case. In your opinion it would have been a necessary fork, but it is the fork nonetheless. Any argument otherwise is revisionist history. LO was a fork, but that was the for many months ago.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-17 Thread drew
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 08:46 -0700, Keith Curtis wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:08 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: And TDF/LO is the real fork in this case. In your opinion it would have been a necessary fork, but it is the fork nonetheless. Any argument otherwise is revisionist

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

2011-06-17 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:54 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: DISCLAIMER: IANAL. Consult one for real legal advice if you need it. ... Party F may ask Group C for the code, showing the written notice he received from Customer E which matches what Group C provided to Customer E. I think

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

2011-06-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:54 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: DISCLAIMER: IANAL. Consult one for real legal advice if you need it. ... Party F may ask Group C for the code, showing the written notice he

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

2011-06-17 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:59 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com ... Your views are not mainstream; if you  want to gain traction, you should make the effort to subscribe to the  gpl-violations.org mailing list and

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice +US Gov't ECCN Export Control

2011-06-17 Thread NoOp
In the past I'd answered a few questions regarding OOo ECCN[1] and pointed the poster to Sun's ECCN[2]. What are the implications for LO general with regards to ECCN? I do see that Novell/Attachmate Group do list an ECCN for LO[3] with a category of 5D992. Given that questions eventually will

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

2011-06-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Ignoring the repetition on who is entitled to source code and how they are told about it, I would like to know the answers to some very specific, tangible matters closer to home. My question is basically whether the terms of a GPL license attached to a software distribution are applicable to

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

2011-06-17 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Ignoring the repetition on who is entitled to source code and how they are told about it, I would like to know the answers to some very specific, tangible matters closer to home.  My question is basically

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

2011-06-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I didn't say I didn't know how to do it. I didn't say I wanted to build it. This is about honoring the spirit of the free software promise. It is not even about building the code. People may want to do any number of things with the source code (inspect for bugs, for example). I *did* say I

[tdf-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: The Document Foundation background

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Mark Wielaard wrote on 2011-06-15 14.34: And if possible please also add a News from the TDF Blog widget to the frontpage like already on libreoffice.org. Then it would be immediately clear that

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

2011-06-17 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I didn't say I didn't know how to do it.  I didn't say I wanted to build it.   This is about honoring the spirit of the free software promise.  It is not even about building the code.  People may want to do any