On 18/03/14 18:34, Felix Yan wrote:
Hi,
I recently received a license from Kingsoft to redistribute the office productivity suite "kingsoft-office", and I want your opinion about if it looks good to us, or if any modifications have to be made.
The product is an office suite written in C++ and Qt, including three components: Writer, Spreadsheets and Presentation. From my own experience, it has very good compatibility with Microsoft Office (much better than LibreOffice, especially with newer formats like .docx files), and have attracted 138 votes on AUR too [1].
Within the past one year, I've been trying and pushing them for this license, and it's finally here.
One more thing that has to be noted is, as the native 64-bit version of kingsoft-office has been (temporarily, I hope) removed from their development cycle, we have to ship the 32-bit version in [multilib] for x86_64 systems. Luckily this won't introduce more packages as all the lib32-* dependencies it needs are already in [multilib].
Below I'll paste the full text of the license. A .doc version (the rich text version directly from Kingsoft) can be downloaded here: https://paste.xinu.at/Mf5/
- Distributed as a deb file - Requires libpng12 (why is that in [community]...) - I don't trust licenses with multiple obvious typos - Is linking at runtime "integrating" with other software - Are dontations to Arch counted as us making a profit from having it in our repos? - The terms indicate we are legally responsible to stop (e.g.) Manjaro redistributing this. - we have to comply with PRC export laws and restrict distribution by country Overall, that is a no from me. It is a deb, so "packaging" is no burden for its users. Allan