[tdf-discuss] FW: Grant of License

2013-03-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Using the address by which I am subscribed to discuss @df.o -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 19:48 To: LOffice Developers List (libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org) Cc: 'discuss@documentfoundation.org' Subject: Grant of Lic

Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-07 Thread Jean Weber
>> The documentation on LO >> BASIC is so sparse that I can't find anything about opening >> spreadsheets. The LO help file promises documentation at >> OpenOffice.org; but clicking that link takes me instead to >> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/BASIC_Guide, which >> is a placeho

Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-07 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Charles, Charles Jenkins schrieb: This is a story about the usability of LO BASIC and the documentation thereof. And also a plea for help. I'm trying to get LibreOffice to work with SAP Business One (hereafter called B1) in order to eliminate the need to pay for expensive licenses for Micros

Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/3/7 Tony Pursell : > On 7 March 2013 16:43, Charles Jenkins wrote: > >> This is a story about the usability of LO BASIC and the documentation >> thereof. And also a plea for help. >> >> I'm trying to get LibreOffice to work with SAP Business One (hereafter >> called B1) in order to eliminate

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Macro Difficulties

2013-03-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/3/7 Nino Novak : > Am 07.03.2013 17:43, schrieb Charles Jenkins: > > >> This is a story about the usability of LO BASIC and the documentation >> thereof. > > > Please keep in mind, that LibreOffice has evolved from OpenOffice.org (now > Apache Open Office), which in turn is derived from StarOf

Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-07 Thread Tony Pursell
On 7 March 2013 16:43, Charles Jenkins wrote: > This is a story about the usability of LO BASIC and the documentation > thereof. And also a plea for help. > > I'm trying to get LibreOffice to work with SAP Business One (hereafter > called B1) in order to eliminate the need to pay for expensive li

[tdf-discuss] Re: Macro Difficulties

2013-03-07 Thread Nino Novak
Am 07.03.2013 17:43, schrieb Charles Jenkins: This is a story about the usability of LO BASIC and the documentation thereof. Please keep in mind, that LibreOffice has evolved from OpenOffice.org (now Apache Open Office), which in turn is derived from StarOffice. So you in addition might wan

[tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-07 Thread Charles Jenkins
This is a story about the usability of LO BASIC and the documentation thereof. And also a plea for help. I'm trying to get LibreOffice to work with SAP Business One (hereafter called B1) in order to eliminate the need to pay for expensive licenses for Microsoft Excel. B1 has a toolbar button t

Re: Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote on 2013-03-06 16:05: I have a patch which is written for LibreOffice. However, I want to provide that patch to LO under both LGPLv3 AND ALv2. Based *solely* on the fact that it is dual-licensed and nothing else, is such a patch acceptable. as our licensing page sta

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
For corporate entities, this is not optimal... they need legal to sign off on any donations, and such a "single" donation is much easier. If a donation is triple-licensed "mpl+alv2+lgpgv2" would that be accepted by TDF? On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Florian Reisinger wrote: > Hi, > > I am gonna

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
The 'problem' is that I've been approached by a number of corp, gov't and non-profits who wish to contribute to LO but want their donations to also be covered under the ALv2. They have heard back that code under ALv2 will not be accepted by TDF and LO and that patches must be under LGPLv3+MPL to e

[tdf-discuss] Re: Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
Hence my (and others) confusion... It's a pretty easy question; at it's basic: Would code provided under ALv2+MPL+LGPLv3 be acceptable to TDF and LO? On Mar 7, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > > back from vacation I stumbled over this interesting thread and for > whatever reaso

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-07 Thread Andre Fischer
On 06.03.2013 15:25, Stephan Bergmann wrote: On 03/06/2013 09:00 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: On 05.03.2013 18:29, Michael Meeks wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 09:19 -0800, Fred Ollinger wrote: I was wondering if libreoffice and aooo can't agree to some basic level api for 3rd party developers?

[tdf-discuss] Re: Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-07 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
back from vacation I stumbled over this interesting thread and for whatever reason my mail filter skipped Florian's answer. But after asking if I missed a reply I was pointed on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/License_Policy which is an interesting page to read. Is it possible that this page

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-07 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 03/06/2013 09:00 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: On 05.03.2013 18:29, Michael Meeks wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 09:19 -0800, Fred Ollinger wrote: I was wondering if libreoffice and aooo can't agree to some basic level api for 3rd party developers? It's an interesting discussion; but in the ab

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 09:19 -0800, Fred Ollinger wrote: > I was wondering if libreoffice and aooo can't agree to > some basic level api for 3rd party developers? It's an interesting discussion; but in the absence of any concrete code, patches etc. it doesn't belong on the libreof

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-07 Thread Fred Ollinger
I know that there were reasons for the fork and I respect that. I was wondering if libreoffice and aooo can't agree to some basic level api for 3rd party developers? Probably not, but I think it's worth asking. Fred On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Keith Curtis wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-07 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 03/06/2013 04:47 PM, Andre Fischer wrote: On 06.03.2013 15:25, Stephan Bergmann wrote: On 03/06/2013 09:00 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: On 05.03.2013 18:29, Michael Meeks wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 09:19 -0800, Fred Ollinger wrote: I was wondering if libreoffice and aooo can't agree to some

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-07 Thread Andre Fischer
On 05.03.2013 18:29, Michael Meeks wrote: Hi guys, On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 09:19 -0800, Fred Ollinger wrote: I was wondering if libreoffice and aooo can't agree to some basic level api for 3rd party developers? It's an interesting discussion; but in the absence of any concrete code, patc