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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:52:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: GPL'd dictionaries (was Re: ftp.services.openoffice.org?)
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=0A=0A--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Andre Fischer <af@a-w-f.de> wrote:=0A=0A> >=0A>=
 > I think we cannot ship MPL source code either (not=0A> > even download+p=
atches). That includes rhino, saxon=0A> > and nss/mozilla.=0A> =0A> Hm, as =
far as I understand this we can not ship MPL code in=0A> the source release=
 directly, but the downloading into=0A> ext-sources during bootstrap were O=
K if triggered by=0A> explicit user interaction, eg by passing a non-defaul=
t=0A> option to configure.=0A> =0A=0AOK, I already read Ariel's link and ap=
parently this has=0Abeen approved by someone at legal.=0A=0AAs I had unders=
tood it the idea is that we shouldn't=0Abe using patches as a workaround to=
 do actual coding=0Aon top of copyleft components, so I guess if the=0Acomp=
onents are not on by default that is OK. This=0Ais still not the best solut=
ion, especially for the=0Anss code but we can live with it for now.=0A=0A> =
>=0A> > I think we should keep the non copyleft dictionaries=0A> > for refe=
rence. I think that leaves us with English,=0A> > Russian, Croatian and I h=
ave an old italian version=0A> > kindly donated by Gianluca to the MySpell=
=0A> > "pseudo-project" @Apache-Extras.=0A> =0A> I don't think that this is=
 a good idea.=A0 I think that=0A> it would be quite confusing to the user w=
hen not all=0A> dictionaries come from the same source.=0A> =0A=0AThen we c=
an move all the dictionaries to Apache-extras=0Aand build the extensions th=
ere, but the copyleft=0Adictionaries have to leave the repository, just lik=
e=0Athe copyleft icons.=0A=0A> >=0A> > You can go ahead and kill hunspell f=
rom the tree.=0A> =0A> Why?=0A> =0A=0AOK ..that's solved for now but won't =
hunspell be=0Ashipped with the dictionaries?.=0A=0APedro.