[open-beos-printing] Re: PDFLib usage in OpenSource products (fwd)

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"Ithamar R. Adema" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm the team lead for the printing architecture of OpenBeOS, an
> OpenSource project started to replicate and ehance a BeOS clone. 
We've
> got a printer driver with PDF output functionality working with your
> library. Our question is this:
> 
> We distribute our code and binaries under the MIT license. I was
> wondering while doing this, would we be allowed to keep PDFLib source
> and/or binaries in our distributions, or is this not allowed=3F

According to the Aladdin license, which we currently use for PDFlib,
this is allowed if you make fully available your source code. I'm
not familiar with the MIT license, and cannot comment on whether it
qualifies or not.

> 
> If there at any point of time there is a commercial version of
> OpenBeOS, I understand the people doing that commercial distribution
> will have to get a licence from you to use the PDFLib in their 
distro,
> but as long as we stay away from the commercial path, must we also 
get
> a (payed) licence=3F

No, as long as you adhere to the main rule, i.e. make your own source
code available on media or for download.

Regards,

Thomas


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