[Diritto] Rilasciare il freeware con il free software

[Davide Dozza]

Ciao a tutti,

sulla nostra mailing list di OpenOffice.org stanno girando un po' di=20
considerazioni sulle licenze varie allegate al software non libero che=20
viene allegato al pacchetto OOo.

Bene. Ci sono in realta' due questioni che non mi convincono delle quali=20
vorrei chiedere un parere in lista.

1) unicows.dll

E' il layer per gli Unicode di Microsoft per 95/98/ME. Si compone di una=20
DLL che l'utente si installa con un pacchetto che si scarica dal sito=20
della Microsoft.

La SUN lo include gia' nell'eseguibile di OOo pertanto si auto installa=20
all'installazione di OOo. Il problema e': se OOo e' LGPL/SISSL come puo'=20
SUN includere una libreria in formato binario e distribuirla?

Allego la licenza di unicows[1]  per chi avesse voglia di darmi qualche=20
suggerimento in proposito, visto che vorremmo distribuire una versione=20
compilata dal nostro gruppo e non direttamente da SUN.

2) Java

Il buon vecchio Java e' come al solito una gran rottura. Siccome OOo=20
utilizza codice scritto in Java sarebbe opportuno, quando si fa una ISO,=20
includere anche la J2RE con la sua licenza in modo che l'utente, se=20
vuole, possa installarsela.
Mi chiedo, siccome esiste un paccho di gente che sviluppa in java,=20
quando distribuiscono le proprie applicazioni allegano o non allegano la=20
J2RE?
Mi viene da pensare di si perche' mi sembrerebbe molto strano che io=20
fornisco l'applicazione e l'utente debba scaricarsi *sempre* la J2RE via=20
internet per usare cio' che ho scritto.

Se ci fosse qualcuno che potesse illuminarmi anche su questo gli sarei=20
grato.

Davide

[1] Licenza di Unicows.dll

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