[Libreoffice] Are ISC/BSD-licensed contributions acceptable?

David Tardon dtardon at redhat.com
Fri Nov 26 01:05:09 PST 2010


On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:52:49PM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 09:47 +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> > in bug #31633 I proposed a patch to one of the export filters.
> 
> 	I've just committed it; sorry for delay.
> 
> 	It's great to have you prodding at this piece of the code. One of the
> sad things about the XSLT filters is that they require Java - yielding
> not only a performance problem, but a nightmare for those without Java
> installed. Perhaps this underlies some reluctance here too:
> 
> 	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31624
> 
> 	around associating with this file type by default (in case you have no
> working Java).
> 
> 	It would be simply wonderful to re-use the libxslt code (that we
> already ship) for the XSLT filter. I wonder if you might be interested
> in that ? if not - adding an easy hack to the wiki would be good [ and
> pointing me at it so we can add some code pointers as to how to do
> that ].
> 

I think that's not possible, because some of the filters (like
WordprocessorML) use XSLT 2.0, which is not supported by libxslt (wasn't
supported the last time I looked, at least). So either we throw
out (or rewrite to XSLT 1.0) all XSLT 2.0 filters and declare that we
only support XSLT 1.0 or we're stuck with saxon (and java).

D.


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