Hi Matthias,
thanks for pointing this out. Polish hyphenation patterns have a README,
and I've just added the missing pointers to the original LeX/MeX patterns:
http://pl.openoffice.org/pliki/README_hyph_pl_PL.txt
As a leader of Polish NLC project, I get asked personally about three
times a week where to get the dictionaries from users who install the
Sun build without it (yes, we have info on our website, and yes, users
don't read it although it's also in the download area). I would really
appreciate if Polish spell checking dictionary and Polish hyphenation
patterns could be committed to OOo sources (see issue 71993). Moreover,
there are three versions of Polish hyphenation patterns on the web, and
two of them are buggy due to the wrong character set conversion, so I
get absurd bug reports as well... :(
Regards,
Marcin
Matthias Klose napisał(a):
The current distribution of most hyphenation patterns, in the
openoffice.org source and from the zip files on the web seems to be
problematic, because license and copyright information is either missing
at all or incomplete. There are two main issues:
- No license/copyright information at all. The format of the
hyph_xx_XX.dic file doesn't allow comments, so in many cases
a README_hyph_xx_XX.txt file is included, which should have
the required information. This is the case for most hyphenation
patterns distributed in the openoffice.org source code.
- Requirements of the LPPL [1] are not met; the LPPL explicitely
allows derived work, even under a different license, but
has some requirements on it. In most cases the paragraph 6d
is violated, requiring either the original work or an exact
pointer where to get the base for your derived work. Pointers
"to TeX/LaTeX" are not enough, it should be a filename, plus
maybe version information.
Other projects like Koffice and Scribus are using the patterns,
distributing these files without license/copyright information. Some
Linux distributions will not distribute these files at all, so it seems
to be the right thing to fix things at the source.
- Document, how to properly distribute hyphenation patterns.
Filed i#74273.
- Fix known problems in the source. I splitted up i#54505 into
separate reports, targeting one language in one report.
Assuming that these files are the most problematic ones for
tracking the missing information, please could you [the list
readers] comment on these issues if you know more facts?
- Fix known problems with files distributed from the OOo site.
I will file bug reports for those as well for easier tracking,
and trying to contact the person in the README who did the
conversion. Where/How are changes tracked for these files?
Help is appreciated tracking down all missing information.
Thanks, Matthias
[1] http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
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