FS#12382 - Go-OO instead of OpenOffice.org

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ramses de Norre (Ramses_de_Norre) - Monday, 08 December 2008, 12:03 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 08 December 2008, 15:19 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Many big distros (Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Debian, Mandriva) have already adopted Go-OO (http://go-oo.org/) as their office suit. This spinoff adds a lot of performance and some extra functionality to openoffice.org, they also release under LGPLv3 instead of sun's licensing. Most of the aforementioned distros have OOo totally replaced by Go-OO in their repos, so many users aren't aware that they aren't using the official OOo. I just wanted to let the maintainer of the OOo package consider this :)
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Monday, 08 December 2008, 15:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  see comment
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 08 December 2008, 13:34 GMT
We have considered this a while ago. Actually, go-oo is just openoffice.org with a large bunch of patches. The most useful patches are integrated in our openoffice package. As for LGPLv3: the patches in ooo-build are LGPLv3, but the resulting OpenOffice.org build is still covered with whatever license sun puts on it. You can't simply relicense a project by forking it.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 08 December 2008, 15:18 GMT
Arch philosphy is to ship vanilla builds wherever possible. So we do with OOo. I only patch it to make it build and fix essential bugs. And for every feature in the go-oo patchset there's a good reason why it's not yet in the Sun sources ;)

But feel free to maintain a source based go-oo pkg in AUR or grab one feature you need most....

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