Re: Re: [opensuse] redistributing opensuse openoffice package
So no, having to purge the software from Novell trademarks is not a GPL violation
It would be nice if Novell was writing somewhere where does trademarks are. That way, it would be easier to make distros based on OpenSuSE, as OpenSuSE is a too general purpose distro for many people. In my opinion, that would increase the popularity of OpenSuSE. Otherwise, other distros may be used instead of OpenSuSE for that purpose. jordi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Jordi Massaguer i Pla schrieb:
It would be nice if Novell was writing somewhere where does trademarks are.
In order to write this down somewhere or publish a list of trademark occurances, such a list would have to exist in the first place. And I doubt something like that exists - not even a list of places where "SUSE Linux" had to be replaced by "openSUSE" exists. Someone would have to go through all packages manually, and that's exactly what happened for the "SUSE Linux" -> "openSUSE" switch. And that is something derived distros can very well do themselves, too, since Novell does it the same way.
That way, it would be easier to make distros based on OpenSuSE, as OpenSuSE is a too general purpose distro for many people. In my opinion, that would increase the popularity of OpenSuSE. Otherwise, other distros may be used instead of OpenSuSE for that purpose.
Hm, it seems that most Fedora-derived distros managed to identify and remove all the trademarks themselves ;-) I think you're demanding quite a lot here: Making life easier for derived distros is not core interest of the openSUSE project. As for the OpenOffice.org packages, it's really trivial because the branding is added during the build with a build system switch. You can't distribute the unmodified binary package anyway because of binary compatibility issues. Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Oct 23, 06 10:30:58 +0200, Andreas Hanke wrote:
Hi,
Jordi Massaguer i Pla schrieb:
It would be nice if Novell was writing somewhere where does trademarks are.
In order to write this down somewhere or publish a list of trademark occurances, such a list would have to exist in the first place.
And I doubt something like that exists - not even a list of places where "SUSE Linux" had to be replaced by "openSUSE" exists.
Someone would have to go through all packages manually, and that's exactly what happened for the "SUSE Linux" -> "openSUSE" switch. And that is something derived distros can very well do themselves, too, since Novell does it the same way.
That way, it would be easier to make distros based on OpenSuSE, as OpenSuSE is a too general purpose distro for many people. In my opinion, that would increase the popularity of OpenSuSE. Otherwise, other distros may be used instead of OpenSuSE for that purpose.
Hm, it seems that most Fedora-derived distros managed to identify and remove all the trademarks themselves ;-)
I think you're demanding quite a lot here: Making life easier for derived distros is not core interest of the openSUSE project.
As for the OpenOffice.org packages, it's really trivial because the branding is added during the build with a build system switch. You can't distribute the unmodified binary package anyway because of binary compatibility issues.
Andreas, I haven't looked into OOo, but its nld subpackage contains the NLD branding. Do you think we could add another subpackage that replaces all branding with white space? This would help for the cases, where binary repackaging is the correct way to go... thanks, Jw. -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de wide open suse_/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 (tm)__/ (____/ /\ (/) | __________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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