[Libreoffice] unnecessary building basegfx twice ?

Michael Stahl mstahl at redhat.com
Fri Jan 6 06:44:58 PST 2012


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?

if it's that closely coupled to a particular version, then claiming it's
an extension is just an exercise in deceptive advertising.

either don't link against unstable LO libs, or stop shipping it as an
extension.



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