Hi Ariel; If the comment on the Wiki has been approved by Apache legal and not just an interpretation you guys are right.
I tend to be pretty strict in this type of issues so please excuse me for scaring you all ;-). Pedro. --- On Thu, 11/24/11, Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 06:29:42AM > -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > Hunspell is still the main spellchecker in AOO but we > > cannot ship the italian dictionary and even the MPL > > dictionaries have to be removed from the repository. > > > > > Exactly, what do you mean by saying "You can go > ahead and > > > kill hunspell from the tree"? > > > > > We are not allowed to ship copyleft (strong or weak) > in > > source releases so the same rules about not > download+patching > > copyleft apply to hunspell. > > > > Unless I misunderstood something? > > https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/ipclearance.html > Task 1: Clarify legal usage of Category B (eg MPL) > libraries > > Binary builds of libraries can be shipped with binary > release of AOO. > Source code of libraries can remain on an Apache server but > (like > ext_sources of old OOo.) > BUT > * source code of libraries is not shipped in a source > release of AOO > * instead it can be downloaded and built during > bootstrap, but only when > developer uses a configure option that is > off by default > > [end of quote] > > that's why rev. 1204995 > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1204995 > introduces: > --enable-hunspell - off by default > --enable-hyphen - off by default > > > * Category B sources are not included > * Using system/building Category B libraries is off by > default > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina >
