Re: [Fennic-spellchecker] Re: Add hyph_fi_FI into Debian OOo build system?

[Jarno Elonen <elonen@debian.org>]

> The Institute of the Estonian Language uses this very liberal license which
> allows redistribution, modifying, etc. as long as the original copyright is
> clearly mentioned: http://www.eki.ee/eki/licence.html  Perhaps this could
> be a good starting point for our hyphenator issue also?

The problem is that SUN requires an agreement that gives them joint copyright 
ownership from all contributors, no matter what the license. See:

   http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#usinglicenses

Anyway, I already wrote to Saarinen and asked him if he would be willing to 
release the ruleset into the Public Domain. I hope he agrees. Otherwise, it 
seems, we have no hope of getting the dictionary officially into OOo.

- Jarno