Hi Pedro, 2011/11/5 Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org>
> Hi Andrea; > > I have been looking at the situation of the dictionaries, > and particular the italian dictionary. > > You are right that it will not be covered by the SGA. > Perhaps more worrying is that the italian dictionary is > the only dictionary under the GPL; most others are triple > licensed (LGPL/MPL/GPL). > > We are not allowed to use it, so it will be removed > from the SVN server for sure. Beyond that ... well > I am not a lawyer and I don't have any idea how the > GPL could be enforced in this case, but things are > not nice. > We've discussed a lot about this issue, but there isn't any consensus yet about *how *to solve the problem, in a pragmatic way that doesn't include a license change. I know for sure that GPL is not the preferred license for at least one co-author who liked the even stricter Affero GPL because of several GPL violations of the Italian dictionary license made by on line web services. We even contacted a specialized copyright lawyer, though we then decided not to file any claim against those people. Nevertheless, the Italian dictionary is one of the oldest dictionary, maybe the oldest one except, maybe, English and German, included into the OOo binary distribution and that wasn't owned by Sun/Oracle. So whatever change would be made that caused its exclusion from the distribution, it would be a real regression for our user base. We discussed about other ways (on line download via a wizard during installation time) to let the user chose these linguistic tools and, IMO, it would be time to define such changes in a surer way than a simple discussion. In fact here: https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/ipclearance.html I see that even translations for the localizations *may *be not covered by Oracle SGA. An AOOo without a native language GUI and linguistic tools would be just useless outside the anglosaxon world and, indeed, a rather disastrous presentation of the new project for people who don't speak English. So, we may try to discuss deeply and practically these topics. Regards, Gianluca -- Lettura gratuita o acquisto di libri e racconti di fantascienza, fantasy, horror, noir, narrativa fantastica e tradizionale: http://www.letturefantastiche.com/
