The current distribution of most hyphenation patterns, in the openoffice.org source and from the zip files on the web seems to be problematic, because license and copyright information is either missing at all or incomplete. There are two main issues:
- No license/copyright information at all. The format of the hyph_xx_XX.dic file doesn't allow comments, so in many cases a README_hyph_xx_XX.txt file is included, which should have the required information. This is the case for most hyphenation patterns distributed in the openoffice.org source code. - Requirements of the LPPL [1] are not met; the LPPL explicitely allows derived work, even under a different license, but has some requirements on it. In most cases the paragraph 6d is violated, requiring either the original work or an exact pointer where to get the base for your derived work. Pointers "to TeX/LaTeX" are not enough, it should be a filename, plus maybe version information. Other projects like Koffice and Scribus are using the patterns, distributing these files without license/copyright information. Some Linux distributions will not distribute these files at all, so it seems to be the right thing to fix things at the source. - Document, how to properly distribute hyphenation patterns. Filed i#74273. - Fix known problems in the source. I splitted up i#54505 into separate reports, targeting one language in one report. Assuming that these files are the most problematic ones for tracking the missing information, please could you [the list readers] comment on these issues if you know more facts? - Fix known problems with files distributed from the OOo site. I will file bug reports for those as well for easier tracking, and trying to contact the person in the README who did the conversion. Where/How are changes tracked for these files? Help is appreciated tracking down all missing information. Thanks, Matthias [1] http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
