Hi Ariel;
If the comment on the Wiki has been approved by Apache
legal and not just an interpretation you guys are right.
I tend to be pretty strict in this type of issues so
please excuse me for scaring you all ;-).
Pedro.
--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arielch@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 06:29:42AM
> -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> > Hunspell is still the main spellchecker in AOO but we
> > cannot ship the italian dictionary and even the MPL
> > dictionaries have to be removed from the repository.
> >
> > > Exactly, what do you mean by saying "You can go
> ahead and
> > > kill hunspell from the tree"?
> > >
> > We are not allowed to ship copyleft (strong or weak)
> in
> > source releases so the same rules about not
> download+patching
> > copyleft apply to hunspell.
> >
> > Unless I misunderstood something?
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/ipclearance.html
> Task 1: Clarify legal usage of Category B (eg MPL)
> libraries
>
> Binary builds of libraries can be shipped with binary
> release of AOO.
> Source code of libraries can remain on an Apache server but
> (like
> ext_sources of old OOo.)
> BUT
> * source code of libraries is not shipped in a source
> release of AOO
> * instead it can be downloaded and built during
> bootstrap, but only when
> developer uses a configure option that is
> off by default
>
> [end of quote]
>
> that's why rev. 1204995
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1204995
> introduces:
> --enable-hunspell - off by default
> --enable-hyphen - off by default
>
>
> * Category B sources are not included
> * Using system/building Category B libraries is off by
> default
>
> Regards
> --
> Ariel Constenla-Haile
> La Plata, Argentina
>
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