Thank you all. We are trying to make liblouis as universally available as possible, and LGPL2 seems to be the best we can do. John G From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sreeja pam Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 8:32 PM To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Christian Egli; Dipendra Manocha Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: How to submit my liblouis code Hello Mr.John, Thank you so much for your information. I contacted my organization regarding this issue, and they are ready to contribute these tables under LGPL2 copyright licence. thanks sreeja On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM, John Gardner <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Sreeja. I am catching up on mail and just read your note. There is a problem. We are planning to change liblouis license from LGPL3 to LGPL2. The reason is that some provisions of LGPL3 appear to threaten ability of companies to protect various patents. So large corporations will not be able to use liblouis unless we stay with LGPL2. We are intending to do that. So can you please ask the sponsoring organization if they are willing to copyright their contributions to the tables undr LGPL2 instead of LGPL3? If they are not, I am afraid we cannot include them in liblouis. We are all very sorry, but whoever wrote LGPL3 has (in my personal opinion anyhow) defeated a major purpose of using LGPL instead of GPL. Thank you very much. John Gardner From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sreeja pam Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:48 AM To: Christian Egli Cc: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Dipendra Manocha Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: How to submit my liblouis code Hello Christian, Thank you so much for your effort to take this forward. I was trying to add authors in Github. I could find authors table when I clicked on fork in the link you provided. I tried editing and added few authors name, but I was not able to commit changes. what is the way of doing? Do i have to write any code for this? Secondly for the copyright information, These table are produced under the project of National Institute for Visually Handicapped, 116, Rajpur Road, Dehradun, Uttrakhand, India. This is an agency under government of India. However we would want to keep this under open source inline with liblouis copyright. I am giving a copyright note below. Please suggest if any changes are required. Copyright National Institute for Visually Handicapped, 116, Rajpur Road, Dehradun, Uttrakhand, India. This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Lesser or Library GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Library GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the Library GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Thanks sreeja On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx> wrote: Hi sreeja On 05/06/2014 10:24 PM, sreeja pam wrote: Hello Mr. John and Mr.Joseph, Thanks for your replies. I am attaching the liblouis tables of all Indian Languages as one zip file. Thank you very much for these tables. I added them in a pull request on github and added some comments as to what I'd like to see before these tables can go in (see https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/pull/3). Amongst other stuff we need: - Integration in the Makefile.am (I can take care of that) - proper copyright statements and license headers - update of the AUTHORS file with all the authors - when changing existing tables then retain the exiting copyright notices and license headers (unless your table is a complete rewrite. Can you please take care of these things. Ideally you'd create a fork on github, do the changes there and when everybody is happy we can simply pull and your changes go in. Thanks Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland ----- Tag der offenen Tuer: Die SBS laedt Sie herzlich ein: 28. Juni 2014 von 9 bis 16 Uhr. Mehr Informationen erhalten Sie unter http://www.sbs.ch/offenetuer