On Jun 12, 2014 11:03 AM, "Mojca Miklavec" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear OpenOffice developers, > > I'm one of maintainers of a collection of more than 70 hyphenation > patterns [1, 2, 3]. (Patterns were not written by me, they have been > contributed by more than 70 authors worldwide, we are merely > collecting them.) > > We are currently discussing trying to change the licence of > hyphenation patterns from GPL/LPPL/<many other licences, sometimes > none>... to a more liberal one, like CC-0 (or maybe CC-BY) to allow > other projects like Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice and others to use our > patterns without having to chase individual authors of hyphenation > patterns. > > We would like to solve the licencing problem "once and for all", so > that almost any project could simply take the patterns and use them, > without having to get special permissions from individual authors to > do so. We plan to contact all authors (except when they are not > reachable) and ask them for permission. > > I'm aware that all the authors of patterns had to sign some legal > contracts in the past to allow their contribution in the project (but > OpenOffice probably doesn't include all of our patterns and might > contain "outdated" patterns for some languages). > > My question for the OpenOffice team is: what exactly do we need to do > to make sure that the hyphenation patterns would be "acceptable as > they are" for OOo from the legal point of view? So that if anyone from > the OOo developers would decide to fetch the latest version of the > patterns from hyph-utf8 one day, there wouldn't be any legal > constraints? > > Thank you very much, > Mojca > > > [1] http://tug.org/tex-hyphen/#languages > [2] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8 > [3] http://tug.org/svn/texhyphen/trunk/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/ >
Apache license 2 is an ideal solution from the OpenOffice standpoint. See what you think. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
