[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Licensing question

  • From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:05:04 +0100

Hi

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:49 -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> I think I already answered this question. The license is definitely LGPL
> with no modifications. I don't know how the wrong information is still
> in http://www.jjb-software.cem/liblouis-guide.html . I thought I had
> updated it. Needs another look. Thanks for bringing this up.

Thanks for clearing this up. I checked the GNU web site to see how the
LGPL is to be applied and I have updated the text in the manual
accordingly. It now says:

@section License

Liblouis may contain code borrowed from the Linux screenreader BRLTTY,
Copyright @copyright{} 1999-2006 by the BRLTTY Team.

Copyright @copyright{} 2004-2007 ViewPlus Technologies, Inc.
@uref{www.viewplus.com}.

Copyright @copyright{} 2007,2008 JJB Software, Inc.
@uref{www.jjb-software.com}.

Liblouis is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Liblouis 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 GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with Liblouis. If not, see
@uref{http://www.gnu.org/licenses/}.

Thanks
Christian
-- 
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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