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On 11/24/11 3:29 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>
>
> --- On Thu, 11/24/11, Gianluca Turconi<public@letturefantastiche.com>  wrote:
> ...
>> Il 24/11/2011 15.01, Pedro Giffuni ha
>> scritto:
>>> I think we should keep the non copyleft dictionaries
>> for
>>> reference. I think that leaves us with English,
>> Russian,
>>> Croatian and I have an old italian version kindly
>> donated
>>> by Gianluca to the MySpell "pseudo-project"
>> @Apache-Extras.
>>
>> Please, keep in mind that I thought that Hunspell would
>> have been the main AOO spell checker until a good
>> substitution wouldn't have found.
>>
> 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?
i hope so and i have understand it differently, we should clarify this 
finally on a new thread.

Juergen

>
> Pedro.
>