Hello Andre; --- On Thu, 11/24/11, Andre Fischer <a...@a-w-f.de> wrote:
> Hi all, > > The last open item on the IP clearance wiki page is the > removal of the dictionary module from the AOO source > code. I think we cannot ship MPL source code either (not even download+patches). That includes rhino, saxon and nss/mozilla. > In order to provide a developer build in the > near future that does not contain category-x licensed code > we need a short term solution. > > The central question is if we have to really remove the > dictionaries at all. I did not see a definitive > answer, so to be on the safe side I assume that the > dictionary module should be removed. > > This leaves the question of a replacement. One > relatively straight forward way seems to be to use the > extensions that can be found at > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/dictionaries. > Two ways of using these extensions come to (my) mind: > > A. Download the extension (assuming that the right locale > can be detected) automatically from the extension repository > during installation. > > B. As last step of the installation, pop up a web page > that, among other things, tells the user that there is a > dictionary extension that can be installed and what its > license is. > > Variant A has the better usability but may not be > acceptable from a legal view. > > Variant B would allow to display additional information and > could offer other (dictionary) extensions as well but would > require more work to be implemented. > > One problem with both variants is that > extensions.services.openoffice.org already seems to have > load problems. When everybody who installs Apache > OpenOffice has to access this server then its load would > increase dramatically with a new release. > > > Unless there are objections I will remove the dictionary > module now, to clear the way for a category-x free developer > build (or whatever its name should be). > I think we should keep the non copyleft dictionaries for reference. I think that leaves us with English, Russian, Croatian and I have an old italian version kindly donated by Gianluca to the MySpell "pseudo-project" @Apache-Extras. You can go ahead and kill hunspell from the tree. > For the 3.4 release we have to decide on and implement a > replacement. > > Best regards, > Andre >
