I am cross-posting with the hopes of moving this thread to [email protected] where it now belongs (if it is to continue)
On 2/19/06, Pavel JanÃk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OpenOffice.org Mac OS X porting team would be happy to accept any work > making the OpenOffice.org even better on Mac OS X, but unfortunately we > can't simply grab the enhancements made for Neo. There are two types of > reasons: technical and license issues. Technical issues are solvable by > both teams but unfortunately OpenOffice.org team can't do anything with > license issue because we (the Mac OS X porting team) are bound by the > OpenOffice.org license which is GNU LGPL right now. Let me ask you this, Pavel - you seem upset at NeoOffice for being GPL (or maybe at OOo for being LGPL). You also seem to think that NeoOffice is better for native Mac users. Since Sun has no interest in StarOffice for Mac (as evidenced by its non-existance), why do we need both projects? How many people are working on the X11 port? 5, 10, 15? Are you all volunteers? If so, then why not ditch the X11 port, and everyone work together on NeoOffice. If the X11 port is needed (and many claim it is) for NeoOffice to continue - then just work on it all as NeoOffice - do the X11 thing to get to the point where the Cocoa thing can take over. Why do we need two projects - it's spliting resources and causing confusion and hurt feelings. If everyone would just work on NeoOffice - there'd be no problem. The OpenOffice.org community at large doesn't have a problem with NeoOffice (as evidenced by its inclusion on the Mac OS X download page). You claim you can't use NeoOffice's advancements due to the license, well if everyone was working on NeoOffice instead of OOoX11 - then there would be no problem would there? All would be GPL, wouldn't it? Why the NeoOffice team decided to go GPL instead of LGPL is their own perogative - but since they have, and they are obviously doing things the X11 team can't - why not join them instead of fighting them? -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
