Hi,
Hristo Simenov Hristov schrieb:
On 10.10.2006 11:36, Rafaella Braconi wrote:
With this mail I would like to remind the NL Communities of the above
process. Also, I would like to emphasize that in case the dictionary
/thesaurus is under GPL license, Martin will need to request legal
approval before integration.
OOo builds can be released and distributed only under LGPL license.
What approval is needed to be integrated dictionaries under GPL license?
Our (Bulgarian) dictionaries are under GPL license. I asked the author about
changing the licens to LGPL but he refused to do that. So, can our
dictionaries to be include in the language packs when they under GPL license?
Please read GPL license, ( from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ) :
2. b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
under the terms of this License.
I'm not a lawyer, but having a dictionary under GPL within the
installation set would (imo) fullfill the condition "... that in whole
or in part contains ... the Program or any part thereof ...". This would
imply that you would need to change the license for the complete package
to GPL.
This might be possible for the OOo Source code itself (it's possible to
distribute LGPL'ed code under GPL) but I don't think, anybody had a look
at all implications.
(If anybody could give me a written statement by FSF, that this kind of
file inlcusion would not cause a need for relicensing, I'd be happy ;-) )
André
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