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Re: [ft-devel] Sublicensing and crediting FreeType2 in a DLL
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] Sublicensing and crediting FreeType2 in a DLL |
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Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:50:19 +0200 (CEST) |
> However, i do not want them run intro licensing issues and thought
> of crediting FreeType2 in a splash screen at startup of any
> application using the engine. Most BSD style licences allow
> crediting in "the documentation and/or other materials provided with
> the distribution" but FreeType2 requires it in the documentation. So
> this may be in the sense of the license but may not be legal.
This is an interesting problem, namely to distribute FreeType as part
of a library and not of an application, and up to now noone has ever
asked that question.
Personally, I consider a `splash screen' part of the documentation --
however, I can imagine that this is annoying to the end-user...
> I'm a bit confused and about to remove FreeType because i cannot
> ensure that every sublicensee properly uses the software. But
> before i do that i at least want to ask you if there is a way.
What kind of license do you use? Does an application which uses your
library have to display your library's license to the end-user
somewhere in the documentation? Then it should be easy to add a
sentence that your library uses FreeType.
Are there other opinions and/or suggestions?
Werner