Wrt PDF Import Extension, and similar extensions: Optional extensions
should not be part of a regular OOo build or source tree, IMHO.
We should have separate source trees for the core product, and for
optional extensions.
Malte.
On 18.07.2011 20:21, Mathias Bauer wrote:
On 18.07.2011 20:04, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
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.
This component is used for the pdf import extension, not for OOo itself.
The pdf import extension is not built by default, there is a configure
switch to enable it in the build. In that case xpdf would be required. I
think that this already fulfils the legal requirements that building
lgpl code must be "opt-in". So as far as I can see, this is not a "to do".
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
I remember a lot of discussions around different ways to copy files in
the new build system of OOo. We can revive that and see where it brings
us. Nevertheless, I think that discussing GNU cp will happen on
usability grounds, not caused by legal requirements. I added this to the
todo list.
Regards,
Mathias
