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Edited by Rob Weir:
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h2. IP Clearance: Impact

The following list describes the impact on GUI level of removal and replacement of libraries as described on the [IP_Clearance|IP_Clearance] page.  Its intended purpose is to keep track of lost or modified functionality.

|| Library || What is changing\\ || User Impact ||
| lp_solve | lp_solve is being replaced by CoinMP\\
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| CoinMP comes from the [Coin-OR|http://www.coin-or.org/] open source project, an open source project that involves operations research professionals and includes cutting edge algorithms.\\ |\\ | This functionality is invoked by the user in Calc via Tools->Solver.   It is used for solving linear programming problems, including integer  programming.\\
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According to one [research paper|http://www.ceem.unsw.edu.au/content/userDocs/stu-ORMMES06_Benchmarking_20060610_FINAL_CEEM.pdf] CoinMP offers superior performance compared to lp_solve.  So the overall user impact from this change should be positive. \\ |
| xpdf | | PDF import can only be built when the poppler library is pre-installed on the system. |
| MySQL Connector/C+\+ | | MySQL connector can only be built when the C+\+ connector is pre-installed on the system. |
| glibc | glibc is being removed from the product\\ | No impact for user. Developers can not use getopt() function to parse command line. |
| SVG: librsvg, libcroco, libgsf, gdk-pixbuf, glib, gettext, pango | | SVG using an external renderer is disabled, thus this new feature for 3.4 is there but creates no visualizations of embedded SVGs. Work for a replacement is ongoing. |
| libwpd | The libwpd library is being removed from the product. \\ | The WordPerfect filter ("WordPerfect Document (*.wpd)") won't be available anymore. No *replacement* until somebody will work on a filter extension that can be installed separately |
| fonts (liberation and gentium) | These fonts are being removed from the distribution due to an incompatible license.\\ | Users may install these fonts to their system, in accordance with their license.  If they do this, then there is no further user impact. |
| libneon | The neon library is being removed from the distribution due to an incompatible license.\\ | The neon library is used to for all http based communication including WebDAV. Without a replacement it is for example not possible to insert an image via an http Url. Work on a replacement ([118569|https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118569]) has started but we will potentially loose WebDAV support at the beginning. |

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