Hello Mathias; --- On Mon, 7/18/11, Mathias Bauer <mathias_ba...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to get rid of some copyleft dependencies. As I will > leave for vacation on Wednesday,
First of all, thanks so much for working on this! > I now send my first patch to the list so that others already > can have a look or even continue. I only did it on Linux so > far, of course we will need adaptions for other platforms. Not too many :-). > I created the patch from the hg repository of > OpenOffice.org, but the > differences to our still not existing svn repository won't > be huge, so > it should bring us a little bit closer to a "clean" build. > > I also added some more todos to the wiki page. > > Meanwhile the license information at > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ApacheMigration > I would like to add a couple more: 1) xpdf (GPL'd) is a run dependency, this is linux/unix specific. PDFBox may be a replacement. 2) The build requires GNU cp, which is inconvenient for the BSDs and MacOS X: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-October/000586.html cheers, Pedro.
