Re: Apache OpenOffice in Fedora 19?

Pavel Janík wrote:
> Is it LO who is infringing on our trademark or is it Fedora who is
> misusing our trademark for other project? Shouldn't we notify Fedora
> people politely about this situation and let them (and help them!)
> solve the issue first?

This part of the thread is derailing a bit (nothing against Pavel, just 
picking one message). It started with Rob saying that IF "sudo yum 
install openoffice.org" installed something else than OpenOffice THEN he 
would have had trademark concerns. I answered that this is NOT the case 
in Fedora (others reported that other distributions do otherwise, but 
this is irrelevant to this thread, even though it's worth addressing in 
a separate discussion).

I attended the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee chat yesterday. We 
can get back to them easily if we don't agree on aliases with the 
LibreOffice packagers. But for the time being the main issue is to be 
able to package OpenOffice.

I already noted on the Fedora lists that, while the Committee doesn't 
want to reassign the "oowriter" alias since it must point to a default 
application (so to LibreOffice), the "openoffice.org" alias (which is 
identical, capitalization aside, to the "OpenOffice.org" trademark) was 
not discussed yesterday. But I hope we can get it sorted out together 
with the LibreOffice packagers for Fedora, and if it doesn't happen I'll 
raise the "openoffice.org" issue with the Committee.

Again, packaging is the real issue now. Let's make OpenOffice for Fedora 
exist before we come to these issues. I'll continue the discussion in 
the other branch of this thread.

Regards,
   Andrea.