Re: [Swftools-common] Licensing

[Chris Pugh]

The date of the 'admin' edit of the wiki

  http://wiki.swftools.org/index.php?title=FAQ&diff=prev&oldid=101

is younger than that of the list message,

   Tue, Jul 28, 2009

and the wiki link leads here,

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

rather than here,

   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

so one assumes that Matthias did indeed change it.

Then again, if you read this

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html

and also the blurb  which heads the c source code,
for example,

<snip>
/* pdf2swf.c
   main routine for pdf2swf(1)

   Part of the swftools package.

   Copyright (c) 2001,2002,2003 Matthias Kramm <address@hidden>

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

</snip>

it looks like Matthias has actually made it a conscious choice!

Maybe it should be more categorically stated in order to iron out any
inconsistency?

Regards,


Chris.

On 8 July 2010 07:18, Deepak Michael <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply Chris ... I did see the FAQ link earlier. But an
> earlier comment from Matthias Kramm in the forum thread below lead me to ask
> the question.
> 'swftools is, at the moment, still licensed under the GPL 2, not 3'
> in the thread below lead me to think otherwise. I assume from your reply
> that it's been changed to GPL 3 in the time that has passed.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg03929.html
> Thanks again,
> Deeps
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Chris Pugh <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 7 July 2010 12:07, Deepak Michael <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > Great work with the tool set. We are interest in using PDF2SWF in our
>> > app
>> > which is a commercial one. I checked the licensing information and it
>> > says
>> > GPL. Would that be under GPL v3 or GPL v2?
>> > Thanks,
>> > Deeps
>>
>> Try this wiki link,
>>
>>       http://wiki.swftools.org/index.php/FAQ
>>
>> It should answer your question.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Chris.
>
>