On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Olivier, > > Thanks for bringing your experienced perspective to the list! > > On Nov 7, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Olivier R. wrote: > >> Le 07/11/2011 16:53, Rob Weir a écrit : >> >>> Why would Apache care about that? >> >> Maybe just because you are an Apache member and you make a strong statement >> on an Apache list about FLOSS you are willing to bundle in your software. >> I’d prefer an official statement about this point, if you don’t mind. > > Rob is not an Apache Member, neither am I. We are Apache Committers and on > the Apache OpenOffice.org (incubating) PPMC. > > An official opinion is a reasonable request. >
Whether a question is reasonable depends on the question. Andrea was asking an Apache policy question. Oliver was asking an abstract legal question. I think we will receive a real answer to only one of these questions. -Rob > On the other thread Andrea Pescetti had an interesting point of view that I > think is the basis for seeking an opinion from the Apache Legal team (made up > of Apache Members) > > > Re: GPL'd dictionaries (was Re: ftp.services.openoffice.org?) > > On Nov 6, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> On 05/11/2011 Gianluca Turconi wrote: >>> 2011/11/5 Pedro Giffuni >>>> 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. >> > > <big snip> > >>> 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. >> >> Sure, especially considering that the project description says that >> OpenOffice.org supports 110 languages... >> >> What I would recommend is: >> >> 1) Recheck the Apache policy and find out the rationale behind it; I have >> nothing to teach to the legal team, but this is a very rare case where the >> "virality" of GPL does not apply. >> >> 2) See if we can find a way to keep dictionaries as they are; note that no >> dictionary is developed in the OOo trunk, they are synchronized from time to >> time, usually before a release; the Italian dictionary SVN trunk, for >> example, is not in the OOo sources. Even just the possibility to provide an >> extension that can be included in binary releases would be OK for me. >> >> 3) If there is really no way to include a GPL extension this way, then we >> should think about downloading the extension at installation time. But we >> managed to get Sun and the FSF agree to ship dictionaries in the most >> convenient way (i.e., included in the installer), so we might succeed this >> time as well. >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. > > Regards, > Dave > > >> >> Regards, >> Olivier > >
