Re: [Devel] A question concerning the freetype licence

[Werner LEMBERG]

> 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.

More specifically, the license must be GPL compatible.

> 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.

The FreeType license doesn't have this restriction.  It only wants
that the FreeType team is acknowledged somewhere, usually in the
documentation and ideally with a pointer to freetype.org.


    Werner