On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 19:14 +0100, David Turner wrote: > > The problem is in Pango actually. "Pango has no problem using it" as in > > no one ever complained about, except recently in Fedora lists. The > > complaint is that Pango is not LGPLed, because it uses code that is GPL > > +FTL. > > > Ah sorry, I imagined that harfbuzz was going to be distributed as a separate > library, not as an integral part of Pango.
Eventually we probably will distribute it separately. But today, it's just copied in Pango like it has been for a few years. I'm rewriting the code right now, so it may not be a problem in the future, but I like to have the freedom to copy from the current code into mine. > In this new context, I understand that you would want a single license. > I'm ok with re-licensing this code under the LGPL, but I believe that Werner > wrote most of it, so you'd better ask him (and check the sources for author > disclaimers). All the sources mentioned you, Werner, and Robert Wilhelm. Thanks behdad > Regards, > > - David > > > Nothing serious. I thought I ask for a relicensing, but if that's not > > possible, I'll just make it clear in Pango's license that it's not LGPL. > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > - David > > -- > > behdad > > http://behdad.org/ > > > > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little > > Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > > -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 > > > > > > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel