Hi Claudio, Thanks for the info. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:58:20PM +0100, Claudio F Filho wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > ... > 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 -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20090326/62f4a95c/attachment-0007.sig>