[Libreoffice-ux-advise] including Ubuntu fonts in Windows/OSX installers

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
<fitoschido at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, going on-topic: the UFL does not forbid LibreOffice from
> including Ubuntu [1], we are not renaming it, and honestly, calling it
> “distro-specific” based on just the name, is throwing bullshit. There
> is a cola beverage named Ubuntu, and it is not affiliated with
> Canonical, why including the fonts in LibreOffice would be interpreted
> as endorsing the distro?

If the name was so inconsequential, why did the author choose a
license that forbid _changing_ the name ?

It is one thing to get distros to cooperate together one large project
like libreoffice, it is quite another to purposefully try to piss-off
their respective Marketing Dept.

Norbert (who is not working for any distro, but can imagine why they
would find that irritating)