On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:38:33 +0100, Christophe Ochal ochal@kefren.be wrote:
Hello Chris
On 09/01/2005, you wrote:
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.
Someone should. I've been sitting here thinking about doing it myself, but I keep waiting for someone else to step forward. So, I'll lay down the gauntlet. If we haven't made any positive move on an organizational structure or temporary spokeman, I'll contact the OO.org organization about our port. Does anyone have any pertinent questions, concerns, or other issues they feel should be address in this opening contact.
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.
That fits in with what is on the OO.org site.