On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 01:15:41PM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 10/11/2013 12:11 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:21:13AM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>>> But what was the story with mysql-connector-ooo, (...) >> Links against GPLed code, so TDF's policy of no strongly copylefted >> code means that TDF builds don't bundle it. > Ah, so that's apparently indeed what's up at > <http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/mysql-native-connector-for-libreoffice-4.x>. Yes. A third party built it and uploaded it there. >> Ubuntu, Debian and (I guess) most GNU/Linux distributions have no >> problem with (strongly) copylefted code and they ship it. > As a bundled extension (ending up unzip'ed into the LO > installation's share/extension) directory, I assume? Yes, I think so, but for the sake of the other platforms, it is desirable that it stays possible to do it as a non-bundled extension (just take the .oxt from the build and distribute that). > (I'm asking because there are cooking up changes to the UNO > component "prefix" feature that would make it desirable that no > non-bundled extension ever used that "prefix" feature. > Unfortunately, the mysql-connector-ooo.oxt that can be built from > the LO source tree started to use that "prefix" feature with > <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=cd79d51420b90117d0f3e1d5f3cdf9187bd61b88> > "prefix all component_getFactory methods" towards LO 4.1. What would be the consequences of reverting the use of that "prefix" feature in mysql-connector in our master branch? Would that be "the best" then? > However, the only non-bundled instance of that extension out there > that I am aware of, > <http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/mysql-native-connector-for-libreoffice-4.x/releases/1.0/mysql-connector-ooo.oxt>, > is luckily old enough to not yet use that feature.) Sooner or later, someone will likely rebuild it from the 4.1 branch and reupload it there. -- Lionel _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
