Perhaps there is no legal need, but the two John's do appreciate being
asked, as do all other members of this list I hope. Mostly we want to
be sure that liblouis remains as useful as possible to all potential
users. If having some tools as GPL excludes any users, we should all
work together to find a better way. So let me make a final call to ask
whether GPL licenses on the tools listed by Christian will make liblouis
unusable by anybody. If not, then I interpret this to mean that we all
concur that he should go ahead and do it. If some unforeseen problem
arises later, we always retain the option of separating the GPL-licensed
tools from the liblouis repository and provide a link to those GPL items
for those who want them.
John Gardner
On 10/7/2009 4:45 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Hello,
Christian Egli, le Wed 07 Oct 2009 11:38:12 +0200, a écrit :
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 10:12 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
I agree in general. Despite my dislike of the GPL I think it is phobably
the best way to go for the tools and xml2brl now.
Am I correct in my assumption that this means that the copyright
holders, i.e. the two Johns agree to change the license of the tools to
GPL?
As I already said in a previous post, while it's a good idea to ask
them, there is no strict need to: by licensing their work under LGPL,
they already allowed any relicensing into GPL, see term 3. of the
license.
Samuel
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