[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Notification of Licensing and Use
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:14:22 -0500
Christian and Michael,
Thanks for your comments. I will modify the notice of licensing and use
accordingly and put it up on www.abilitiessoft.com . If approved, it can
then be copied to the googlecode sites. I do think the notice should
make everything explicit, including that the tables and files are under
the LGPL.
John
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:44:48PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry for not replying earlier. I was busy with hacking on liblouis :-)
>
> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 13:59 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Considering the discussion of licensing, I think it would be a good idea
> > if our websites contained a page on licensing and use. This should be a
> > separate page with a link to it on the home page to make it stand out.
> That's a good idea and I can do that.
>
> > liblouis, liblouisxml and their associated programs are open-source and
> > are free for anyone to download and use according to the following
> > terms.
>
> I'm a bit weary of basically restating what the license says. This is
> open to interpretation be the legal types, worse might even contradict
> what the license says and I don't really want to go there.
>
> What I would do is to simply state what our intention is (anyone can
> link to the libs and anyone can invoke the tools) and state that we
> think that the LGPL and GPL serve this purpose very well. That way you
> only state what your intention is and do not say anything that might be
> interpreted as a modification of the license terms.
>
> Maybe something along the following might work:
>
> 1. We want anyone to be able to use liblouis and liblouisxml as
> libraries, i.e. anyone should be able to link to these libraries
> without restrictions on the licensing of the calling program.
> That is why they are licensed under the GNU Lesser (Library)
> General Public License (LGPL).
> 2. We want anyone to be able to use and invoke the liblouis tools
> (lou_checktable, lou_debug, xml2brl, etc.). Since they are
> standalone tools there is no need to link to them. We consider
> invoking these tools via command line a mere aggregation (in the
> sense of
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation) and
> hence believe that this does not pose any restrictions on the
> license of the invoking program. For that reason they are
> licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
>
> I don't think there is any need to specifically mention the licensing of
> the tables as they all (should) have a little blurb in them that states
> that they are LGPL
>
> Thanks
> Christian
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>
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