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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

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