Re: [Libreoffice] unnecessary building basegfx twice ?

On Friday 06 of January 2012, Michael Stahl wrote:
> On 06/01/12 12:19, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > > Maybe the easiest way out would be to turn pdfimport from an .oxt
> >
> > extension into an (optionally installable) part of LO.
> >
> > Makes a lot of sense, I think. Ditto for other "extensions" included in
> > the source code.
>
> in the case of pdfimport, isn't there a potential licensing problem
> because it uses GPL-licensed xpdf/poppler code?

 I confess to having no clue about .oxt whatsoever, but assuming that now the 
pdfimport extension is binary code that eventually ends up dlopened by the 
soffice.bin process, how does turning it into a normal LO component, which is 
binary code that eventually ends up dlopened by the soffice.bin process, 
change anything? It shouldn't matter whether we open a pdf by finding out we 
have this filter that can handle it or by finding out we have this extension 
that can handle it.

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 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak@suse.cz