On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:23 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Halton: > > > This ??????%description part is copied from README file in code base. Maybe > > I > > need give a simple sentence: > > %description > > GOffice -- A glib/gtk set of document centric objects and utilities > > This seems a better description. Done. > > > I can not find any document talking about GOffice supported document > > formats. I searched GOffice code base, I got lots MS support like: > > * god-image.h: MS Office Graphic Object support > > I think you should ask the maintainers, or query on any public forums > associated with this project. Would be good to encourage them to > improve their documentation if it doesn't detail this information. > Perhaps you could suggest adding such information to the README > or something. Will do.
> > >> Is goffice really a GPL library, as the License field in the > >> goffice.spec file says? What is the impact of this? > > > >>From COPYING and REAMDE file, it is GPL licensed. But when I do > > copyright-extractor for it, I found it is GPL/LGPL mixed. > > I'd raise this issue with the maintainers or on any public forum > associated with the project. If the code is a mix of GPL and LGPL, > then the effective license is GPL. However, it would be good to > find out if the maintainers have any plans to switch to LGPL. > > If this is a GPL library, then we need to be careful and verify that we > don't link it into any non-GPL programs. Do you have a complete list > of all programs that are in Solaris that would use this library? What > are their licenses? Please add me in cc list. Thanks, Halton. > > Brian
