I'm curious as to how it was ever added, when the birt component was first
introduced I'm pretty sure we agreed to not include this part of it because
of licensing concerns.

On 25 March 2017 at 02:34, Jacopo Cappellato <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Jacques Le Roux <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > plugins/birt/webapp/birt/webcontent is a part of the birt component but
> > AFAIK is not used by OFBiz.
> >
> > Also Birt is licensed under EPL, it's category B
> > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b <
> > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b>, so files should
> be
> > only provided in object/binary form
> >
> > So I think we need to remove this code. I was able to generate a PDF and
> a
> > XLS report after removing this part, so I think it's OK w/o it.
> >
> > I also tried the new Birt feature (Flexible Reports) and it works with
> any
> > kind of format provided.
> > I begin the documentation of this new part and will let you know when
> it's
> > done...
> >
> > Jacques
> >
>
> If the code is not used then I cast a great +1 for its removal.
>
> Jacopo
>

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