[Libreoffice] unnecessary building basegfx twice ?

Thorsten Behrens thb at documentfoundation.org
Fri Jan 6 08:43:11 PST 2012


Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > in the case of pdfimport, isn't there a potential licensing problem
> > because it uses GPL-licensed xpdf/poppler code?
> 
>  I confess to having no clue about .oxt whatsoever, but assuming that now the 
> pdfimport extension is binary code that eventually ends up dlopened by the 
> soffice.bin process, how does turning it into a normal LO component, which is 
> binary code that eventually ends up dlopened by the soffice.bin process, 
> change anything?
>
It doesn't. poppler is used out-of-process either way.

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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