On 21 October 2011 16:01, Herbert Dürr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011/10/20 11:12 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Rob Weir<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Sam Ruby<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Pedro Giffuni<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hmm ... >>>>> We have discussed some of the things that must be replaced but we have >>>>> not drawn a roadmap about it beyond the initial migration list. I think we >>>>> will have to open BZ issues for those. >>>>> >>>>> The gtk/qt issue is rather critcal: I do not think there is previous >>>>> history among Apache projects depending on them but if we cannot consider >>>>> those "system provided" libraries it would be a serious setback to an >>>>> early >>>>> Apache release. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I would support allowing C/C++ code to link to gtk and/or qt, provided >>>> we don't distribute gtk or qt themselves. Both are LGPL. The LGPL is >>>> clear for languages like C, C++. >>>> >>> >>> Clear in what sense? Dynamic linking and such? >>> >> >> Excellent question. The definition of 'link' is well understood in >> the context of C/C++. That's all I meant to say. >> >> I'll go further and state that what I said I would support is >> intentionally limited in scope to only gtk and qt. Both are commonly >> distributed with Linux distributions. Other candidate LGPL licensed >> dependencies would have to be evaluated separately. >> > > Who does the evaluation? The PPMC members of the AOOo project? > > The next LGPL library that should be evaluated in that context is CUPS ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**CUPS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS>) > which is quite essential for printing on many Unix platforms. > > Herbert >
I don't want to sound too negative, but if the whole of CUPS and all its printer definition files have to be re-written (and that is only one dependency) isn't saying an Apache licensed release in early new year a bit optimistic? -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales.
