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Re: [Devel] A question concerning the freetype licence
From: |
Vadim Plessky |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] A question concerning the freetype licence |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:42:12 +0400 |
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On Tuesday 17 September 2002 7:18 pm, Erwin Hoegerl wrote:
| Dear Sirs,
|
| I'm examine the freetype font renderer for potential use in a commercial
| project.
|
| I' dealing with the following configuration: A Linux-system with installed
| freetype library as provided
| by freetype.org or the linux distribution, dynamically linked by the
| application, without any modification in the freetype library.
| The application itself is part of an embedded, proprietary machine control
| system.
| The application will not be distributed as stand-alone program.
|
| I'm not really sure about some issues concerning the FreeType License and
| the GPL.
| As I understood the GPL, when I'm using the freetype library, I have to
| release for public the whole source code of my application.
FreeType comes with BSD-like license, it's not so restrictive as GPL.
So you don't need to release your code if it uses FreeType library.
| But after reading the FreeType License, it not sure about this demand.
| Making the source code of our project public would be a strong reason for
| not using the freetype library.
|
| Can you clarify this licence issue?
I think David Turner can tell you more if you are interested in.
|
| Sincerely yours,
| Erwin Hoegerl
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