https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106534
--- Comment #17 from sophie <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #16)
> (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #15)
> > Calling colors by there alien names probably violates copyright. We should
> > rename the colors.
>
> The point of the colors is for users to identify that they are the same
> chart color palette used by default in MSO, so not sure how renaming them
> from 'MS Office 201X XXXXXXX' would be of benefit or be understandable to
> users. Also i've seen other office suites that have also used similar
> naming, e.g. Softmaker Office[1] uses 'Excel 2010' and 'Excel 5.0', so doubt
> there is an issue. Also we do have 'MS Excel' in our help.
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/
> 1Z1IBeqKnscoODgFDNm81iDnwkzxce92sEsYuMggnTDQ/edit#heading=h.5af7ly204war
>
> [2] https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Section
We do have MS Excel when we refer to MS Excel functions or interoperability.
But it's not a good idea to rename palettes using Microsoft branding, it's
really not what we want to show our users and contributors. Please bring this
to legal@tdf before submitting such changes, thanks!. Sophie
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