[liblouis-liblouisxml] Licensing question
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:25:28 +0100
Hi all
I just noticed a grave mistake in my texinfo version of the manual. I
had created it using some other texinfo manual that I had from another
GNU project, using the same basic structure and title page. This
included also some licensing information that was included on the title
page. So I basically moved the licensing information from its own
section to the title page. In the process of doing this I apparently did
not copy the proper text from the original. I fixed this now in my local
copy where I reinserted the "Licensing" section (as a subsection of
"Programming with liblouis"). I can commit this and we should have the
texinfo manual reflect the state of the documentation at
http://www.jjb-software.com/liblouis-guide.html.
However this brings me to the next question: The whole licensing
situation seems a bit unclear. The COPYING file in the tar ball says
that liblouis is LGPL. The Google code project page says that it is GPL
v2 and the manual says it is GPL with permissions and restrictions.
Which one is right?
LGPL seems to make the most sense to me since it is a library, but it is
not up to me to decide. We have to respect the original license from the
copyright holders.
Thoughts?
Thanks
Christian
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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com
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