On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:01:52PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > [ -legal: please let the CCs intact and CC: me, I am not subscribed ] > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255451 contains a wish to > include hspell support (upstream issue > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25832) into our > OpenOffice.org packages and I want to do this starting with the upcoming > 1.1.3 packages. > The problem is that OpenOffice.org is LGPL/SISSL and hspell pure GPL so it > could not be included in OpenOffice.orgs source and linking (in this case > statically) against it is also not really ok... Why not? If all of OOo is LGPL, then the license allows you to distribute under the terms of the GPL, so linking with another GPL library is ok. What are the advantages of hspell (which I've never heard of) over other spellchecking implementations already used by OOo, btw? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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