FWIW; These situations are usually resolved easily by a nice cease and desist letter from legal@.
The BSD games collection has been a usual target to many of those. Look what happened to monop, boggle and tetris: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/games/Makefile cheers, Pedro. --- Ven 6/1/12, Jürgen Schmidt ha scritto: > > Hi Jürgen, > > > > > > Le 6 janv. 12 à 12:18, Jürgen Schmidt a écrit : > > > >> On 1/6/12 11:54 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: > >>> Ah, found another one: > >>> > >>> Synaptic on Ubuntu 11.10 has a package > "openoffice.org" which installs > >>> LibreOffice. It is not installed by default > (the "libreoffice" package > >>> is) and also provides the 'explanation' > >>> > >>> <quote> > >>> This is a transitional package, replacing the > OpenOffice.org packaging > >>> with the LibreOffice packaging. > >>> > >>> It can be safely removed after an upgrade. > >>> </quote> > >>> > >>> but still, is this OK? > >> > >> it sounds strange and not really ok for me. > > > > > > Same for me. > > > > > >> First they could still support older versions of > OOo and second we > >> would probably like to reserve this package name > for an upgrade to AOO > >> if possible at a later time. > >> > >> I hope we can find some support for this later. > But using the name and > >> installing something different is of course > confusing and misleading, > >> isn't it? > >> > > > > > > I'm complaining about that since several month (e.g. > on this list 23 > > november 11h19). Glad to see I'm not the only one > now. > > I would assume that hey have done it without a hidden > agenda and thought > it would be ok ;-) > > I don't want or better I don't think that it make sense if > we make a big > issue out of this. > > I think we want have a good relation to them and we should > potentially > send a friendly reminder that we see a problem here. > > As a user I would expect that I get the latest OOo 3.3 > version. And in > the future we would like to use it to get an AOO with some > explanation. > > Any other opinions? > > Juergen > >
