Am 20.04.2010 um 12:28 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > 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.
That sounds good. But... This is something I'd like to retarget for Mac for future implementation. Currently I know near to nothing how to do that... And I would integrate it more into the LyX application. One of my goals is to make the installer for Mac obsolete. Openoffice has no installer on Mac too. At least it seems so... It is an disk image with the ready to run application to move to some appropriate place on your your hard disk plus README and LICENSE. >> 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. Then I propose to use some hard coded path below $sysdir for the shipped directories and the user may specify another path for the extra dictionaries in preferences. Stephan
