On 23/10/2014 brane wrote:
On 22.10.2014 03:02, Justin Mclean wrote:
You may possibly be forgetting about Category B licensed
dependancies. These may only be included in binary form in an
Apache product. ...
I have trouble visualising how any ASF project could have
/mandatory/ dependencies on anything from the B-list.
If I understand correctly, we are speaking about optional dependencies
rather than mandatory dependencies. But the distinction, especially if
you look at the information Dennis already discussed, might not always
be clear: for OpenOffice, one of those dependencies is the spell checker
(external library, Hunspell).
So: our source release can perfectly come without a spell checker,
builds fine and works. Technically this is an "optional" dependency and
everything is correct and in accordance with the ASF rules. Still, for a
user it would be quite problematic if we removed the spell checker from
the convenience binaries... So this is not mandatory but it's still a
"must have" for our final users, and given the OpenOffice audience it
totally makes sense that the project recommends a convenience binary
that already comes with some optional features included.
Regards,
Andrea.
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