[Libreoffice] unnecessary building basegfx twice ?

Fridrich Strba fridrich.strba at graduateinstitute.ch
Fri Jan 6 06:01:18 PST 2012


PDF importer works out of process and communicates with LO only using 
temporary files. So, we don't really *link* GPL-ed code.

F.

On 06/01/12 14:24, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>  > in the case of pdfimport, isn't there a potential licensing problem
>  > because it uses GPL-licensed xpdf/poppler code?
>
> Ah OK. IANAL, so maybe indeed keeping it as an oxt then is relevant.
> Still, what prevents us from saying that a particular build of this
> "extension" as shipped with LO x.y, works only with LO x.y?
>
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