Hi Rob, all,
On 24.11.2011 18:50, Rob Weir wrote:
On Nov 24, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Pedro Giffuni<p...@apache.org> wrote:
Hi Ariel;
If the comment on the Wiki has been approved by Apache
legal and not just an interpretation you guys are right.
Weak copy left (category-b) like MPL may be included in our binary
releases but not our source releases. We can also automate
downloading the source for these modules as a non default build
option.
We are not required to move MPL code from SVN. But we should be
removing GPL code since we cannot distribute that in source or binary
releases.
I would like to clarify what it means that MPL code is part of the SVN
repository. At the moment, most category-b and -x code is provided in
one of several archives that are downloaded during the configure process
from
http://hg.services.openoffice.org/binaries. That means that up to now
these archives have not been part of the SVN repository. The
dictionaries are one exception to this. They are located in the
main/dictionaries directory.
The http://hg.services.openoffice.org/binaries server is not expected to
live for much longer so we need a new home for these archives. We are
in the process (almost finished) to remove the category-x code. For the
remaining category-b code the SVN repository would be a convenient
place, but every other server would do as well (from a technical
standpoint).
That means that there already is a clear distinction between category-a
and category-b code. This distinction makes it easier to make a source
release by basically just putting the main/ and extras/ trees into an
archive. No sorting out the category-b code is necessary.
Regards,
Andre
I tend to be pretty strict in this type of issues so
please excuse me for scaring you all ;-).
Pedro.
--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Ariel Constenla-Haile<arie...@apache.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 06:29:42AM
-0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
Hunspell is still the main spellchecker in AOO but we
cannot ship the italian dictionary and even the MPL
dictionaries have to be removed from the repository.
Exactly, what do you mean by saying "You can go
ahead and
kill hunspell from the tree"?
We are not allowed to ship copyleft (strong or weak)
in
source releases so the same rules about not
download+patching
copyleft apply to hunspell.
Unless I misunderstood something?
https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/ipclearance.html
Task 1: Clarify legal usage of Category B (eg MPL)
libraries
Binary builds of libraries can be shipped with binary
release of AOO.
Source code of libraries can remain on an Apache server but
(like
ext_sources of old OOo.)
BUT
* source code of libraries is not shipped in a source
release of AOO
* instead it can be downloaded and built during
bootstrap, but only when
developer uses a configure option that is
off by default
[end of quote]
that's why rev. 1204995
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1204995
introduces:
--enable-hunspell - off by default
--enable-hyphen - off by default
* Category B sources are not included
* Using system/building Category B libraries is off by
default
Regards
--
Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina
