[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Licensing of liblouis tables (was: Move the library to LGPLv2.1)
- From: Larry Skutchan <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
- To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:09:57 +0000
It is a shame someone even has to ask this question. The whole intent of
Liblouis is to help make quality braille available on all devices. Why should
someone who wants to use it have to jump through hoops?
This licensing question is tricky and annoying and results in hindering the
mission.
What are our options for smoothing this process?
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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Licensing of liblouis tables (was: Move the
library to LGPLv2.1)
"Mulcahy, Marc" <mmulcahy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
"John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
If I understand Christian's post, liblouis is now licensed as LGPL2.1
except for some of the tables.
How can we tell which tables are licensed under LGPL V2 Vs. LGPL V3? We'll
need additional languages eventually, but UEB would probably be enough to get
us going.
Well, currently only the source code of liblouis has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
The tables are all still LGPLv3. Two remarks with respect to
that:
1. Somebody needs to go through all the tables, look at the copyright
statement and the revision history and compare this with the list of
contributors that have agreed to re-licensing. Pick the tables where
we have permission to change the license. Send me this list and I
will change the licenses. If you do this before the summer holidays
there is a chance that this will go in the 3.0 release. Contact me if
you need help with that.
2. I'm not a layer but as far as I know the LGPL is about linking. Since
the tables are not linked to your program you might be OK. On the
other hand this might be slippery terrain.
Hope that helps
Christian
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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse
12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
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