Hello Chris
On 09/01/2005, you wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 05:14:55 +0100 (CET), =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Schober?= wrote:
OpenOffice.org in fact is the name. Just look at the splashscreen ;-) IMO we must keep the name to benefit from its popularity. Maybe OOo for AmogaOS or OOo AmigaOS Edition, but generally it must be OOo.
I aggree here totaly. Before we talk about the name, some official contact and permission has to be granted anyway.
I was just going to write about that. Looking over the OpenOffice.org site on porting and new projects, it looks like we'd become part of the OpenOffice.org project and the port part of the product line. What would it be called, OpenOffice.org of course. Just like it is called on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac, Solaris, etc. Though the Amiga version might be listed at OpenOffice.org AmigaOS or OpenOffice.org AmigaOS4.
Agreed
Lot of these questions would be answered if we would just decide on a spokesman, just for now, and contact OpenOffice.org as listed in the porting page and/or new projects page. They seem to have resources that may be available to use, possibly a basic project structure to follow, not to mention resources on porting. Also, we should be prepared for them to have certain requiements for the port. It is their code. Taking it, port it, and call it something other than OpenOffice.org just seems wrong and not to mention probably breaks some copyright law/IP laws even through it is open source.
I could contact them, my english is more then good enough, but i'll only do so if nobody objects.
So far from what I've seen of the discussion, it's been more of the take it, rename it, port it. Basically, take it and make it our own. It just seems like stealing and passing someone's work of as our own. We can still make it our own, but still have it be OpenOffice.org.
The program is OpenOffice.org, the team & project will be named appropriate, but the app is and remains OOo.
Regards