On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 21:08 +0200, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> Le mercredi 02 juillet 2008 à 19:05 +0800, Halton Huo a écrit :
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've two questions on goffice, not sure it is right place to ask, if
> > not, please let me know.
> >
> > 1. What kinds of documents does goffice support?
> >  I searched GOffice code base, I got lots MS support like:
> > * god-image.h: MS Office Graphic Object support
> > I can not get more information than it.
>
> Goffice does not support any document type AFAIK. It provides various
> utilities, one of the most important being the chart engine used by
> gnumeric and gnucash.
>From READE, I get:
There are common operations for document centric applications that are
conceptually simple, but complex to implement fully.
- plugins
- load/save documents
- undo/redo
Could you give more information here? If possible, update this document
or webpage is very helpful.
>
> > 2. License
> > From COPYING and REAMDE file, goffice is GPL licensed. I searched the
> > code base and found it is GPL/LGPL mixed. My understanding goffice is a
> > library, it would be good if it is LGPL. How do you think then?
>
> Most of the code was originally extracted from the gnumeric source tree
> for which the license is GPL-v2. Changing the license to LGPL would
> make impossible to move more code from gnumeric (and would need the
> agreement of all contributors). See
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463248 for a discussion about
> changing the goffice license. You'll see that things are not so easy.
Thanks for updating. I got the situation now.
Cheers,
Halton.
>
> Regards,
> Jean
>
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