[Phpmyadmin-devel] legal concerns about external libraries

[Marc Delisle]

Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> Dne Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:13:18 -0400
> Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):
> 
>> The change in license exists in the downloaded version of PHPExcel 
>> 1.7.6; this was not done by the phpMyAdmin team.
>>
>> The idea is that we want to remove the problematic files.
>>
>> For exporting in Excel 2007, my quick test worked (after removing
>> PHPExcel/Shared/OLE directory, OLE.php and OLERead.php).
>>
>> For exporting in Excel 97-2003, it does not work, we would have to
>> remove the calling of class PHPExcel_Shared_OLE_PPS_FILE from
>> Writer/Excel5.php and maybe some other tweaking.
>>
>> I suggest dropping support for "Excel 97-2003". An alternative for these 
>> versions is our "CSV for MS Excel" export.
> 
> I still wonder if native support for Excel 2007 is worth including 3
> MiB of code.

Where I work, a user faced a situation where simple CSV exporting was 
not enough but I don't remember the specifics. Maybe Dieter can add his 
comments about native support's advantages.

> 
> How about shipping just wrapper files (export and import plugins),
> which would work only if PHPExcel is installed in PHP search path?

This might be more difficult to set up for user in hosting environments.
> 
> This way we could include support for both, but user would have to
> download PHPExcel on his own.



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Marc Delisle
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