Apparently, though unproven, at 19:30 on Friday 15 October 2010, Florian 
Philipp did opine thusly:

> Am 15.10.2010 16:19, schrieb Andrés Becerra Sandoval:
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:05 AM, András Csányi <sayusi.a...@gmail.com
> > 
> > <mailto:sayusi.a...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >> 
> >> I would like to know when will be part of portage the LibreOffice? I
> >> know this is an unsupported software (I have found in Gentoo Forum
> >> unsupported software part).
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have libreoffice-bin installed from rion overlay and it is working
> > fine for the moment.
> 
> [...]
> 
> There is also what looks like a source build (haven't tried it) in
> geki-overlay.
> 
> 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.



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