On 10.10.2006 20:40, Andre Schnabel wrote:
>
> 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 ;-) )

Well, when lang packages for linux are 3. So I think 4th package with 
dictionaries install will not break this. It will be separate and the lang 
packs still will work without the 4th.

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Hristo Simeonov Hristov
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