Forwarded, as this is of general interest. Victor, I hope that's ok
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Subject: GPL licensed files on Liblouis repository
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:36:37 +0000
From: Victor Montalvao <vicmont@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
christian.egli@xxxxxx <christian.egli@xxxxxx>, dave@xxxxxxxxx
<dave@xxxxxxxxx>, Tom.Johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<Tom.Johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, paulw.torchtrust@xxxxxxxxx
<paulw.torchtrust@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi John, Christian, Dave, Tom and Paul,
I'm Victor, a Software Engineer at Microsoft Accessibility team, and I'm
currently developing a software which may use liblouis to translate text
to braille characters on windows, but we have some licensing concerns.
Even though Liblouis has an LGPL license, some table files (listed
below) still state to have a GPL license on their headers.
*Tables*
*License*
*Last Copyright Update*
*Maintainer*
*Location on BRLTTY repository*
*License on BRLTTY repository*
/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/ar-ar-g1.utb
GPL
2012 by Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>>
John J. Boyer, director@xxxxxxxx <mailto:director@xxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/countries.cti
GPL
2004 by The BRLTTY Team
Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxx>>
Tables\Contraction\countries.cti
LGPL 2.1 (updated Jan2016)
/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/cy-cy-g1.utb
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
Tom Johnston, Tom.Johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Tom.Johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/de-de.dis
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
John J. Boyer, director@xxxxxxxx <mailto:director@xxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/en-gb-g1.utb
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
Paul Wood, Torch Trust: paulw torchtrust.org
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/en-us-mathtext.ctb
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
John J. Boyer, director@xxxxxxxx <mailto:director@xxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/fi-fi-8dot.ctb
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
John J. Boyer, director@xxxxxxxx <mailto:director@xxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/fi-fi.ctb
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
John J. Boyer, director@xxxxxxxx <mailto:director@xxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/fr-bfu-comp6.utb
GPL
2004 by The BRLTTY Team
Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxx>>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/fr-bfu-comp8.utb
GPL
2004 by The BRLTTY Team
Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxx>>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/fr-bfu-g2.ctb
GPL
2004 by The BRLTTY Team
Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxx>>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/fr-ca-g1.utb
GPL
2004 by The BRLTTY Team
Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxx>>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/Fr-Ca-g2.ctb
GPL
2004 by The BRLTTY Team
Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxx>>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/fr-fr-g1.utb
GPL
2004 by The BRLTTY Team
Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxx>>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/Fr-Fr-g2.ctb
GPL
2004 by The BRLTTY Team
Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxx>>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/no-no-generic.ctb
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/no-no-generic.dis
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/no-no.ctb
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/no-no.dis
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/se-se.dis
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
John J. Boyer, director@xxxxxxxx <mailto:director@xxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/text_nabcc.dis
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
John J. Boyer, director@xxxxxxxx <mailto:director@xxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/UEBC-g1.utb
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
Tom Johnston, Tom.Johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Tom.Johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/uni-text.dis
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
John J. Boyer, director@xxxxxxxx <mailto:director@xxxxxxxx>
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/liblouis-2.6.4/tables/vi-g1.ctb
GPL
2004 by ViewPlus Technologies
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I see that many of those files are not on BRLTTY repository anymore and
most of them did not have their license updated for a long time.
I also see that most of the table files on BRLTTY
<https://github.com/brltty/brltty/tree/master/Tables> have been updated
on Jan23, 2016 and basically all of them now use LGPL.
I'd like to know (1) if there's any reason why those files remain GPL
or, (2) in case they are supposed to be updated to LGPL, if that will be
done anytime soon.
Thank you!
Regards,
Victor Montalvao
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