Hi Claudio,
Thanks for the info.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:58:20PM +0100, Claudio F Filho wrote:
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Hi
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The result is that all user (win, mac or linux) that use a program 'OpenOffice*' (can be "Open Office", "OpenOffice" or "OpenOffice.org"), by interpretation of INPI, is breaking the copyrights of owner of the brand. So, by determination of Federal Government, is denied the use of "OpenOffice*", and the official option is BrOffice.org. To protect our devels and users, we created a NGO (with the same name) and registered the brand 'BrOffice.org' saving our necks (and of our users) of juridic problems.
Does that also mean that all the commercial linux distributions sold in Brazil have a custom made OpenOffice.org ?
In 2006, i spoke with Rene Engelhard, lead of OOo team in Debian, about our problem and he created a "semi" meta-package[2] of Broo in him distro. Why "semi" meta-pkg? Because this pkg depends of OOo pkgs and have more the files and changes of name and images (splash, about, etc), with ~3.8Mb. [2]http://packages.debian.org/sid/broffice.org
Today, for brazilian users that uses Debian haven't legal problems, and what Thiago (and me) wishes is extend this legal situation to brazilian users of CentOS.
imho, that should be pushed upstream...
Tru