Hi Mathias; I wondered the same when I suggested they should be treated as documentation, and still it classifies as weak copyleft.
--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a dumb question: why do we think > that the dicts are source code? At least those without > patches are distributed without any treatment. We just > package them. So where is the difference between an MPL > library and an MPL .dic file? Just the extension and the > encoding of its content. > You mean like just tar them all and put them with the binary release? Pedro. > Regards > Mathias > > Am 24.11.2011 um 15:57 schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]>: > > > 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 >
