Copyright infringement and future of Hunspell

Thorsten Behrens thb at libreoffice.org
Fri Nov 17 15:23:16 UTC 2017


Hi guys,

Димитриј Мијоски wrote:
> I don't see any copyright infringement, as Hunspell allowed LGPLv2.1
> or later, which safely allows us to put out derivative work to
> LGPLv3. And also, ALL copyright notices were kept.
> 
With LibreOffice being one of the major downstream consumers of
hunspell, we are concerned about this - so _if_ you're pondering to
reduce the number of licenses (which at any rate should be agreed on
amicably between the project maintainers), why not pick the MPL
instead?

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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