samedi, août 29, 2009

More about the public release of OOo4Kids

To make things clear, after we announced we'll use the GPL V2, we finaly changed for the LGPL v3.

Below, the content of the mails sent to the Project Leads mailing list (copy of the mail), just the URL for download has been hidden)


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Hi,

Our new server is close to be ready for a public development version, but before to announce, I'd like to be sure nothing is wrong (of course, we'll will correct it asap if so)

I know Sun trademarked a lot of things, and we'd like whether there is something wrong with the current versions of OOo4Kids.

The license we finally choosen for the code is the LGPL v3, respecting Martin Hollmichel suggestion. The repository is not created, but will probably be soon : still waiting for Martin answer, to create a dedicated branch, but without the need to use the SCA ( OOo4Kids is not Sun trademarked, but EducOOo, a non profit association )


Additionaly to our own information, we will add, at a visible place, on the download page :

- OpenOffice.org website and a link for download OpenOffice.org source code
- a word explaining this is a development version, intended to work with students around OpenOffice.org, for pedagogical reasons, and who has not all the features OpenOffice.org has
- an invitation to use OpenOffice.org for the one who want to use Base or anything using Java


For the one interested to test, I have put versions of OOo4Kids 0.5pre on the following server : http://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww/ ( openoffice -> OOo4Kids ). Please note this server will be deprecated soon.

Available :
- Windows,
- Mac OS X (Intel and Power PC)
- Linux Intel (Mips -gdium version- and PowerPC will come soon)


Thanks in advance to confirm nothing is wrong, or to explain us what we still have to modify, to respect OpenOffice.org Project.



Eric Bachard
Lead,
OpenOffice.org Education Project

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Education Project: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project
Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page
L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org
Blog : http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news

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publié par ericb @ samedi, août 29, 2009