Also sprach Stephan Witt: > So the question is: is it legal to ship those dictionaries with LyX? > Can some kind soul with the knowledge about such things tell?
Depends on the licensing of the specific dictionaries, which are third-party- contributions to Ooo. Most have "Opensource" license according to this site: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/taxonomy/term/233 Whatever "Opensource" means, I'd say we can distribute these. My proposal would be to have those dictionaries on a server and let the installers download them, if required. This is what the Windows installers do with the aspell dictionaries now, AFAIK. I guess installers on all platforms can share this approach. > Next question if it is legal: how to mix these shipped dictionaries with > those the user already has on the machine. The question is: is there a fixed place for such dictionaries on the Mac? Here on Linux, there isn't, and it's hard to check where these dictionaries are. In the latter case, I would suggest that the installer uses some specific place for the LyX dictionaries and install them separately. Jürgen
