On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffu...@tutopia.com> wrote: > > --- On Sat, 9/24/11, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > ... >> >> HunSpell code is tri-licensed under GPL/LGPL/MPL. >> > > That particular licensing scheme is rather weird: LGPL > implies that it can become GPL so you could just say > dual licensed LGPL/MPL, and then, once you make something > pluggable, the GPL basically becomes unenforceable but > let's not get into that right now ;). > > >> If I understand corectly, Apache considers MPL 1.1 to be >> "weak copyleft" and we have some limited ways (as a >> binary of using it in our releases. >> > > Yes we can. I am not sure what a company would think about > it though: some lawyers are more strict than others. What > does IBM use in Lotus Symphony? >
We use an library from our LanguageWare project. It is not open source, unfortunately. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/languageware/ >> >> Individual dictionaries, however, can have their own >> license as you know. So there may be some that we cannot >> include in the release, but we can still point the user to. >> > > It looks like we might have a bunch of them that we can > relicense to AL2. We will have to wait for the SGA to know > for sure but if it does happen, it is a nice treasure that > we should take advantage of. > > Pedro. >
