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

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Vincent Massol wrote:
> 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

OpenOffice is LGPL, so we can redistribute it. That FAQ is about 
StarOffice, which is commercial software.
-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
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