Issue 21666 - StarOffice should use free hyphenation patterns wherever possible
Summary: StarOffice should use free hyphenation patterns wherever possible
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: requirements
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2003-10-24 16:17 UTC by maccy
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:31 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description maccy 2003-10-24 16:17:29 UTC 
StarOffice should use the free hyphenation patterns of OpenOffice wherever 
possible and drop the corresponding commercial ones.
This will save Sun some money for licencinf fees of the commercial hyphenation 
libraries and it will make the StarOffcie and OpenOffice documents more 
portable. Now someone might write a text with StarOffice and enable German 
Hyphenation for example but someone opening the same document in OpenOffice 
might result in different line or even different page breaks because the other 
hyphenation patterns might insert the hyphen at different places.

I hope this is not the very wrong place to put this (StarOffice) request.
Comment 1 khendricks 2003-10-24 16:38:49 UTC 
Hi,
Unfortunately, you have filed this with the one project (lingucomponent) that exists 
only in OOo (not Star) and that does not have Hamburg evelopers working on it, and 
that does not have a say in what Star does at all!

So I am moving this to the Word Processor (sw) project so that someone official from 
Star/Hamburg at least can see this issue and maybe respond.

Hope that is okay ...

Kevin
Comment 2 stefan.baltzer 2003-10-27 11:52:25 UTC 
Issue type changed to "Enhancement"
Reassigned to Bettina.
Comment 3 thomas.lange 2003-11-21 08:58:44 UTC 
Not quite that easily done because according to Kevin most
dictionaries are not provided for use with LGPL but only GPL and thus
it is quite unsure if those dictionaries could legally be used with SO.

If all dictionareis would be provided with LGPL we could give this a
second thought.

However SO will feature the OOo spellchecker in one of the next
releases / product patches. But the OOo dictionaries are required to
be downloaded and installed manually.
Comment 4 maccy 2003-11-21 11:18:15 UTC 
sorry, I was not writing about *dictionaries* but about hyphenation
patterns. Dictionaries are not critical at all for page layout but
different hyphenations may result in different layouts. Hyphenation
patterns are not as license critical as dictionaries.
Comment 5 maccy 2008-05-12 10:27:14 UTC 
ping
Comment 6 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:49:15 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".
Comment 7 Pedro Giffuni 2011-12-01 20:41:49 UTC 
The Apache Software Foundation does not use GPLd software in its releases.
We recommend the Apache License 2 as it is GPL3 compatible but is, in
less restricted for general use.

For the time being Dictionaries and hyphenation patterns have been removed
from the tree for IP conformance reasons.