On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 10/20/2011 06:02 PM, schrieb Alexandro Colorado: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Marcus (OOo)<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Am 10/20/2011 05:38 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Marcus (OOo)<[email protected]> >>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Has someone already thought about the license for the included JRE? >>>>> >>>>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/index.html >>>>> >>>>> With releases from Sun/Oracle we put the JRE into (many) installation >>>>> sets >>>>> to make it easier for the user with the installation. But it's also >>>>> required >>>>> for some features as the Base module and some wizards. >>>>> >>>>> How can we continue this? Is the license compatible? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Presumably our Windows install includes Microsoft redistributable >>>> binaries as well, MSVCRT DLL, etc.? >>>> >>>> >>> AFAIK yes, so another dependency that needs to be considered for a >>> release. >>> But I don't know for what it is used and if there is a possibility to >>> avoid >>> or exchange this. >>> >>> >> Didn't he just mentioned that is used for the Base module and other things >> like Scripting framework and such? >> > > Who do you mean with "he"? If Rob, then I've understood his comment > different. Sorry it was mentioned on a different email. > > > Ohhlo can give you a measurement of how much Java code is included in OOo: >> http://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice/analyses/latest >> > > But when the complete Base module is affected, then IMHO it doesn't make > sense to just skip to include a JRE because only 5% source code is Java. ;-) 5% of the code can be a few millions of line of code that could build UIs like Base or huge part of the scripting framework of OOo that runs all the macros and such. I also wonder how fundamental will Apache be regarding this since OOo was always flexible about including different libraries under different licenses. > > > Marcus > > > > There is already an issue for this: >>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118532 >>>>> >>>>> Marcus >>>>> >>>> -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org fingerprint: E62B CF77 1BEA 0749 C0B8 50B9 3DE6 A84A 68D0 72E6
