Pedro Giffuni ha scritto:
There is however, for practical purposes, a huge difference
for us between MPL/LGPL (the french case) and GPL-only (the
italian case).
Well, the Italian dictionary in his long history has been distributed
under SSIL, LGPL+GPL, LGPL only, GPL only, and as you know, recently
under Apache license v. 2.0 too.
I think there are two different issues here:
a) for the authors: changing licenses or find another legal way to
include the linguistic tools or create everything from scratch again;
b) for the users: having open source office suite *product *with
functional linguistic tools.
Under a), I have done everything I know to facilitate the inclusion of
what I've created and, be sure, I won't start another dictionary from
scratch *again*. ;-)
Under b), since I'm a power OOo user too, I have to say that a Office
Suite without functional linguistic tools in my native language, would
be simply like crap for me.
I perfectly know that Apache project has its own rules and produces code
according to those rules without looking at functionalities. That's OK,
for me.
Nevertheless, OOo users have to be productive in their daily jobs and
look *a lot* at functionalities.
So, if the choice is between a full-Apache-compliant OOo product and
productivity, I'll always chose productivity.
I think this issue is one where comprise has to be pursed as first solution.
Regards,
Gianluca
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