On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:23 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Halton:
> 
> > This ??????%description part is copied from README file in code base. Maybe 
> > I
> > need give a simple sentence:
> > %description
> > GOffice -- A glib/gtk set of document centric objects and utilities
> 
> This seems a better description.
Done.
> 
> > I can not find any document talking about GOffice supported document
> > formats. I searched GOffice code base, I got lots MS support like:
> > * god-image.h: MS Office Graphic Object support
> 
> I think you should ask the maintainers, or query on any public forums
> associated with this project.  Would be good to encourage them to
> improve their documentation if it doesn't detail this information.
> Perhaps you could suggest adding such information to the README
> or something.
Will do.

> 
> >> Is goffice really a GPL library, as the License field in the
> >> goffice.spec file says?  What is the impact of this?
> > 
> >>From COPYING and REAMDE file, it is GPL licensed. But when I do
> > copyright-extractor for it, I found it is GPL/LGPL mixed.
> 
> I'd raise this issue with the maintainers or on any public forum
> associated with the project.  If the code is a mix of GPL and LGPL,
> then the effective license is GPL.  However, it would be good to
> find out if the maintainers have any plans to switch to LGPL.
> 
> If this is a GPL library, then we need to be careful and verify that we
> don't link it into any non-GPL programs.  Do you have a complete list
> of all programs that are in Solaris that would use this library?  What
> are their licenses?
Please add me in cc list.


Thanks,
Halton.
> 
> Brian


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