[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: LGPL license
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:26:44 -0500
Yes. Dave Mielke agreed to let us use LGPL for liblouis.
John
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 04:00:18PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 06/11/2014 03:46 PM, Bert Frees wrote:
> >I finally managed to locate (hopefully) all contributors.
>
> Thanks for this list.
>
> >The list includes the contributors of BRLTTY and Hyphen as well. I've
> >listed them all because it is impossible to trace back who actually
> >wrote the stuff that ended up in liblouis. As both libraries are LGPL
> >2.1, it's not necessary to ask for their permission when relicensing
> >liblouis under that same license AFAIK.
>
> While Hyphen is indeed LGPL2.1, BRLTTY is not. I just checked the
> license and it appears to be GPL (see
> http://mielke.cc/brltty/download.html). I don't know which parts of
> liblouis are from BRLTTY and I don't know why we are allowed to
> redistribute BRLTTY code under LGPLv3. Presumably the BRLTTY people
> gave John the permission?
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
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