Distribution Project2007-02
OpenOffice.org welcomes efforts to distribute the software and grow the community. The points below are meant to clarify issues relating to how you may represent yourself, whether you can use our logo, and more generally, what OpenOffice.org is about. The purpose of Distribution Project is to establish policy and consolidate areas and links relating to the distribution of OpenOffice.org. Distribution includes the Mirrors Project, CD-ROM Project, OEM Project, and the experimental P2P project, which is still under development (if you want to get OOo on P2P networks, contact louis at openoffice.org). For now, the Download pages, in English and in other languages, are not linked to this project. Please go to the Download Central page. Distribution's (sub) projects are fairly autonomous but all follow the same distribution policies. Derived Works OpenOffice.org code is also the infrastructure for many other applications. Within the open-source constraints of our licenses, you are free to build applications using the source. If you build any application using OpenOffice.org, please include the phrase: "Derived from OpenOffice.org." We are proud of our work and wish others to see what it is capable of. Please also let us know by sending a note to the Community Manager. Policy on Distributions: What To Distribute We have created a page dedicated to explaining the files you can offer. If you are interested in distributing OpenOffice.org files, go to: A Community Distributor may be a person or group who has gained permission to distribute OpenOffice.org and use the official logos. This group includes those who are managing download servers mirroring OpenOffice.org's software (binaries, source, ancillary files), CD-ROM distributors, OEM builders, and even peer-to-peer networks. Our system now includes several "official" volunteer mirrors, from which the software can be downloaded (see "Files" section) but no "official" CD-ROM or OEM distributors. All our CD-ROM and OEM distributors are "Community Distributors." Depending on the sort of community distributor you wish to become, contact:
Other requirements for community distribution:
Please also join the appropriate sub-project (listed below): CD-ROM, Mirrors, OEM, P2P. We encourage you to join so that we may coordinate work more efficiently. For instance, we can more specifically notify project members of updates and changes in policy or files. As to benefits: OpenOffice.org receives over two million page hits every week. You are also joining in distributing a product and enlarging a project that is changing the world. We have three general mailing lists. You must be subscribed to the dev@distribution list to post unmoderated messages. All are welcome to join, but it is obligatory that all Community Distributors join the "dev@distribution.openoffice.org" list.
To subscribe to these, view and search the archives, please go to the Project Mailing Lists.
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