On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:55:34 +0200, Mathias Bauer
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 22.06.2011 01:07, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
--- On Tue, 6/21/11, Mathias Bauer<[email protected]> wrote:
...
Cleanups are boring but not difficult. I do think we should
focus on having things build first though.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who prefers to do some work over
discussing about other applications. :-)
Other applications are better discussed in *other* lists :).
I don't know if someone wants to spend time and effort on it
later on but we can import some of the LibreOffice enhancements:
if the changes involve only removing code we don't need a
license for that.
Interesting. But it's easier and less work to do that by ourselves.
And IMHO removing superfluous comments or unused code is better done
on the fly while you are at the file anyway.
I only mentioned it JIC there is some interest in keeping our code-
base in sync with "that other project that has become a problem to
even mention" ;).
Anyway, let's talk about OOo now.
Great idea :) Have you seen where the GNU regex code is?
I suspect GNU regex is the only piece we need to replace,
the rest of the packages with problematic licenses can
either be made optional or removed.
I don't agree completely. Indeed regexp is the only part of the
source code repository that needs a replacement, but there are
several
external source tarballs we include into an OOo build that contain
important functionality, e.g. spell checking. We can't make that
optional or remove it, we have to find a replacement.
Ispell is BSD licensed and has many dictionaries, but I have no
Idea if it has all the required functionality. Alternatively
we can just add a dependency to the GNU stuff like we will
wave to do with gtk/qt.
For regex there are many alternatives: in FreeBSD there is an ongoing
project to replace GNU regex with a compatible library, but in this
case I'd like to see Google's RE2 because it's in C++ and (apparently)
as fast as it gets.
We will know more as soon as the external source tarballs' licenses
are clear.
Yup, I still need to learn patience.
Pedro.
Regards,
Mathias
