18 Mar
2014
18 Mar
'14
4:41 p.m.
[2014-03-18 16:34:23 +0800] Felix Yan:
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.
I skimmed through the license and Section 2 indeed seems pretty bad: we must (1) fill out a web form before redistributing the software and (2) guide (some? any?) third party who wishes to redistribute it to do so lawfully; if there are issue with this third party, we are held jointly responsible... Like Andy, I believe we should really avoid proprietary software when open source alternatives are good enough. So I guess the question is: how bad do you want that office suite in our repos? -- Gaetan