Re: [Libreoffice] [ooo-build-commit] .: dictionaries/hr_HR dictionaries/prj

forgot to cc the list...
2010/10/6 Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 01:55:07PM -0700, Andras Timar wrote:
> [...]
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/dictionaries/hr_HR/README_hyph_hr_HR.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> > +Hyphenation dictionary
> > +----------------------
> > +
> > +Language: Croatian (hr HR).
> > +Origin:   Based on the TeX hyphenation tables
> > +License:  LGPL/SISSL license, 2003
> > +Author:   delacko@linux.hr (Denis Lackovic)
> > +
> > +HYPH hr HR hyph_hr
> > +
> > +These patterns were manualy converted from TeX hyphenation patterns.
> [...]
>
> Aha. So this license violates the LPPL. (the TeX patterns are under LPPL,
> right?). The LPPL claerly says that you *can* relicense but you *must
> either ship the original file with it or tell the people which file you
> based on *exactly*.
>
> Plase, people, check licenses and whether stuff is actually distributable
> (license-violating stuff IS NOT) before you do something, especially for cases
> like this which have been gone thorugh for various hyphenation patterns in the past
> and there are issues for many.
>
> I am going to revert that commit later (or at least remove the hyphenation part).
>
> Grüße/Regards,
>
> René

Hi René,

Thanks for raising the issue. I hope Robert (on cc) will provide us
with updated info on this and we will not have to remove the
hyphenation patterns. AFAIK we can tell the exact version of the
patterns used, it must be this one:
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/hrhyph.tex

Regards,
Andras