[xwiki-devs] Openoffice sdk client need openoffice runtime to run

Vincent Massol vincent at massol.net
Tue Jun 3 14:00:55 CEST 2008


On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> Tiago Rinck Caveden wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu at xwiki.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, we should not embed an OpenOffice instance in XWiki  
>>> products, so
>>
>>
>> Just a humble suggestion, why don't you simply let it embedded in an
>> optional plugin? The user download it if he wants to, and he won't  
>> need to
>> do it to have XWiki...
>> It's quite convenient sometimes to have everything packed and  
>> configured at
>> one simple download, specially if the user doesn't intend to use  
>> this OO
>> runtime for anything else.
>>
>
> Yes, could be an optional plugin, and a special package (built with a
> different profile). Others also provide installation packages with or
> without JRE, so we can have XE with or without OpenOffice (well, we
> could also provide a package with an included JRE).

Provided the OO license allows us to redistribute it...

I'm not sure I understand http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#10

-Vincent



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