Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 84336
license/readme files in new distributed products
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:48:06 UTC
In the OOo 2 branch, the current situation regarding license and readme files included in product installation sets is as follows (at least on Unix, file names may differ slightly for Windows): - The URE (which has no locale-dependent parts other than its license and readme files, which in turn are only available in en-US) contains .../LICENSE .../README .../THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html - An Office product (e.g., plain OOo, BrOffice, StarOffice) contains .../LICENSE .../LICENSE.html .../README .../README.html .../THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html .../licenses/LICENSE_${loc} .../licenses/LICENSE_${loc}.html .../readmes/README_${loc} .../readmes/README_${loc}.html .../share/readme/LICENSE_${loc} .../share/readme/LICENSE_${loc}.html .../share/readme/README_${loc} .../share/readme/README_${loc}.html Where all but THIRDPARTYLICENSREADME.html (which appears to always be en-US) are potentially localized (but sometimes at least .../LICENSE[.html] is in en-US though the rest is not), and many of the files appear to be copies of each other. The "${loc}" represents the locale(s) for which the product is installed. With the new setup for the OOo 3 branch (see issue 84200), there will be three kinds of (conceptional) products: - URE remains a standalone product but is also reused as the lowest layer of a three-layer Office product. - OOo Basis is the "product" that is the common, shared basis for various Office Brand products. (It is the middle layer.) - Various Brand products (the top layer). Please clarify what kinds of license and readme files should be contained in each kind of product.
accepting.
need to revisit for 3.1
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