Hi, >Hello Sophie, > >Thank you for your email. I didn't about these problems :-( >It looks like Sun doesn't understand the concept of community. > >Sophie Gautier wrote: > >> So, what is the choice left in that case, a fork ? > >Hypothetically speaking... how difficult would a fork be? >Could it still be hosted at openoffice.org ?
It depends on the nature of the fork. But this is why we have been having the discussion (intermittent, interrupted, prolonged) regarding the lmits of freedom for any localization group: to see how serious the localization changes can be before it is really deemed to be a fork. The history of the discussion is on releases@, and involves JA and IT projects. It was then moved to the ESC. Sophie raised it as an agenda item last session. My guess is that it will continue to be unreported on for a while. What I have proposed is that we define the limits of freedom for any localizer (and other). The ESC is rightfully the group to make that decision. However, the ESC, I believe, does not see this as an issue. Perhaps I am wrong. Pavei? (Anyway, I didn't see it quickly going through the meeting logs.) > >Sun's primary interest is StarOffice, not OOo, is that right? >So, would it be possible for OOo-fr to use the term they prefer and let >StarOffice-fr go its own way? That has been the discussion before, basically, with some provisos. My own preference is to be more liberal and to permit the localization groups freedom to deploy that which is necessary, provided that it is either purely for their group and doesn't affect the source (in short is not really a fork) or if it does, that any change be made permananent and be folded back into the source. For a discussion on these issues, see <http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgId=1195890> and, the thread, <http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=releases&by=thread&; from=206674>. (Note, there is a lot of not very relevant stuff in the thread.) > [snip] Cheers Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
