[CentOS-devel] RPM of BrOffice.org

Thu Mar 26 12:14:21 UTC 2009
Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org>

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
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> 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
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