Am 08.11.2011 02:25, schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile: > OOo has three kind of linguistic components: > * spell checker > * hyphenator > * thesaurus > > OOo provides a default implementation for the three by means of > Hunspell: > > 1) hunspell - LGPLv2+ or GPLv2+ or MPLv1.1 > > http://hunspell.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hunspell/hunspell/COPYING?view=markup > 2) hyphen - LGPLv2+ or MPLv1.1 > > http://hunspell.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hunspell/hyphen/COPYING?view=markup > 3) mythes - BSD > > http://hunspell.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hunspell/mythes/README?view=markup#l38 > > (3) with the BSD license is compatible with the Apache License > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a > > (1) and (2) with the MPLv1.1 are "weak copyleft", this means both > libraries "may be included in binary form within an Apache product if > the inclusion is appropriately labeled" > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b > > And this is what actually happens with the three libraries: ./bootstrap > fetches the compressed files, and the libraries are built in > > trunk/main/hunspell > trunk/main/hyphen > trunk/main/mythes > > Look at the folders: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/hunspell/ > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/mythes/ > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/hyphen/ > > there are only patches and makefiles, no copyleft source. > AOOo can keep Hunspell based linguistic components, there is no need to > remove anything, it is already IP-clean. > A source release will never include the sources for these components, > as it never did if you downloaded an archived version from > hg.services.openoffice.org
But you need to pull the source tarballs from somewhere - and this again touches the topic "where to put external source tarballs of (weak) copyleft modules". I'm going to continue with my "moving ext_src to Apache" thread tomorrow, so we can follow-up there as this is not a liguistic-only topic. Regards, Mathias
