Chris Halls wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:33, Rene Engelhard wrote: >>Am Dienstag, 21. September 2004 12:28 schrieb Steve Langasek: >> >>>Why not? If all of OOo is LGPL, then the license allows you to >>>distribute under the terms of the GPL, so linking with another GPL >>>library is ok. >> >>Hmm... > > Does this mean we would be changing the licensing of the packages from > LGPL/SISL to GPL only? This may upset some users who are linking > non-free modules to OOo at the moment. I'm thinking of the Finnish > spellchecking and hyphenation module that Jarno Elonen packaged.
This would arguably also affect the ability to package openoffice.org-java, since that links OO.o to a non-free JDK. I think the ideal solution would be to change hspell so that it can build outside of the OO.o source tree; as far as I know, it is OK to have some GPLed and some non-free plugins for the same LGPLed program, as long as they are not all distributed together. - Josh Triplett
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