Re: question on goffice



Le mercredi 02 juillet 2008 à 19:05 +0800, Halton Huo a écrit :
Hi there,

I've two questions on goffice, not sure it is right place to ask, if
not, please let me know.

1. What kinds of documents does goffice support?
   I searched GOffice code base, I got lots MS support like:
   * god-image.h: MS Office Graphic Object support
   I can not get more information than it.

Goffice does not support any document type AFAIK. It provides various
utilities, one of the most important being the chart engine used by
gnumeric and gnucash.

2. License
From COPYING and REAMDE file, goffice is GPL licensed. I searched the
code base and found it is GPL/LGPL mixed. My understanding goffice is a
library, it would be good if it is LGPL. How do you think then?

Most of the code was originally extracted from the gnumeric source tree
for which  the license is GPL-v2. Changing the license to LGPL would
make impossible to move more code from gnumeric (and would need the
agreement of all contributors). See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463248 for a discussion about
changing the goffice license. You'll see that things are not so easy.

Regards,
Jean




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