Bug 114944

Summary:	Add Microsoft color sets for charts to the chart color palette again
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Thomas Lendo <thomas.lendo>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	heiko.tietze, michael.meeks, philipz85, sophi
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0.0.1 rc
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106534
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Bug Blocks:	90486, 104118

Description Thomas Lendo 2018-01-10 09:32:07 UTC

With bug 106534 (Color set/palette for charts missing since reorganization of color palettes) not only the LibO chart color set was added but also 2 color sets for charts of Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013.

They improved the usability because
1) all these Microsoft colors could be re-used in documents (especially in round trip environments with Microsoft products) and
2) LibO users had more choice of chart colors.

The current short chart-palette seems little bit lost.

In LibO 5.4.3.2 the chart colors are there, in 6.0.0.1 they are gone.

Comment 1 Thomas Lendo 2018-01-10 09:38:07 UTC

New color names can be chosen so that no legal problems occur.

I don't think that the colors itself (their hex/RGB value) are proprietary.

Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2018-01-10 10:09:49 UTC

(In reply to Thomas Lendo from comment #1)
> I don't think that the colors itself (their hex/RGB value) are proprietary.

Please provide proof of this. Here is a link speaking for the opposite https://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/06/bp-loses-trademark-case-over-color-green/ (there are many other when you search for "trademark color", admitted that it is the brand color.

Also it makes not much sense when colors have completely different names.

Comment 3 Michael Meeks 2018-01-10 11:30:26 UTC

To make this abundantly clear - pseudo-legal speculation in bugzilla is -emphatically- not appreciated. If you are aware of any legal topic you would like to discuss please contact legal@documentfoundation.org to setup a call.