527198 - No need to include dictionary in language packs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[u60234]

We distribute language packs for Thunderbird 3 that include spell checking dictionaries, but licensing information for those dictionaries are not shipped.

If bug 526505 doesn't get fixed on 1.9.1 before the release of Thunderbird 3, we need to come up with another way of bundle the licenses for the dictionaries we ship.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> We distribute language packs for Thunderbird 3 that include spell checking
> dictionaries, but licensing information for those dictionaries are not shipped.
> 
> If bug 526505 doesn't get fixed on 1.9.1 before the release of Thunderbird 3,
> we need to come up with another way of bundle the licenses for the dictionaries
> we ship.

Two possible solutions:

1) Don't ship language packs with dictionaries (I'm not sure why we do this anyway when Firefox doesn't) - this would be a one line fix iirc.
2) Don't ship language packs.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Attachment: Don't ship dictionaries in language packs

Remove shipping of dictionaries in langpacks:

- TB 2 didn't ship dictionaries in langpacks.
- KaiRo enabled shipping dictionaries in langpacks when we moved across some locale changes. I couldn't see any reason for this other than probably making langpacks similar to what is shipped in-apps.
- langpacks aren't shipped by default, we don't even link to them on the website afaik, but they are available on ftp.mozilla.org.
- AFAIK no-one has explicitly requested dictionaries to be shipping in langpacks at any time.

Therefore my proposal is that we remove shipping of dictionaries in langpacks until such time as: a) bug 526505 is fixed, fixing the licensing issue, b) it is explicitly requested.

This will mean we can ship Thunderbird 3 without any license worries, and we can revisit the decision later if necessary.

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Comment on attachment 411198 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't ship dictionaries in language packs

r=dmose, conditional on removing the trailing list on the remaining $(ZIP) line.

Comment 4

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Er "trailing slash".

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Checked in:
http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/eee5a798a4df
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-1.9.1/rev/edb078ff2f4f

(updating summary to what we're actually doing/solving).