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Re: [technology-pmc] Third party dependencies in ACTF (accessibility APIs)
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Dear Bjorn,
Thank you very much! I'll create CQs for both APIs and attach this
discussion into these CQs.
Best regards,
---
Kentarou Fukuda, Ph.D.
Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan
Tel: +81-46-215-4659
E-mail: kentarou@xxxxxxxxxx
technology-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 2008/03/14 11:57:12:
> Kentarou-san,
> The MSAA and IA2 dependencies will be categorized as "exempt pre-req".
>
> Thank you for asking and I apologize for the delay,
> Bjorn
>
> Kentarou Fukuda wrote:
> Dear Technology PMC members,
>
> I received the guideline for the 3rd party dependencies when I tried to
> use the OOo in ACTF
> (http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/technology-pmc/msg00761.html).
Then
> I found that I might need to get another approval for my previous
> contribution CQ1867
> (https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1867).
>
> In the CQ, we have a component "accessibility service" that provides a
way
> to access accessibility information from applications via the
> accessibility APIs (Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and
IAccessible2
> (IA2)). To use this function, we assume the existence of these
> accessibility information providers.
>
> MSAA is a standard component of the Windows. So, our component can
always
> get accessibility information via MSAA in a standard Windows
environment.
> In addition to this, our component get IA2 information if an information
> provider of IA2 exists in the user environment.
>
> I would like to know how we can categorize this dependency.
>
> In addition to this, the specification of IA2 API is published under
LGPL
> (http://accessibility.freestandards.org/a11yspecs/ia2/docs/html/). In
the
> contribution, we do not use any LGPL material (such as IDL file, etc.)
to
> build the code, but we use their identifiers (IDs, method names, etc.)
to
> call APIs. Do I need to create additional CQ to use these APIs?
>
> If there are another actions I need to take, please let me know.
>
> Thank you in advance for your support.
>
> Best regards,
> ---
> Kentarou Fukuda, Ph.D.
> Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan
> Tel: +81-46-215-4659
> E-mail: kentarou@xxxxxxxxxx
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