[Savannah-register-public] Re: [task #3659] Submission of The FreeType Project

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello,

As you could see I only have basic knowledge in licensing.

I suggest you contact the GPL Compliance Lab at address@hidden,
that provide legal assistance to free software projects.

You will be able to ask there for the preferred license header, and
for a confirmation about the GNU GPL-incompatibility of the FreeType
license.


If possible, please include address@hidden or at your
option address@hidden in Cc, so that we'll know the
next time :)


> By the way, we'll need to contact all copyright holders to perform the
> change. I'm mainly thinking about the code for the 'type42' driver here.

Do you mean there is still some GPL-incompatible code in FreeType? If
yes, then we may make the project private until this is fixed, as we
do not host GPL-incompatible code at Savannah.

-- 
Sylvain


On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:19:44PM +0100, Turner, David wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'd like to know if the following disclaimer to be used at the top
> of all FreeType header files would be sufficient:
> 
> ------------------------cut here----------------------------------
> /* Copyright (C) 1996-2005 David Turner, Werner Lemberg...
>  *
>  * This file is part of FreeType 2.
>  *
>  * FreeType 2 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
>  * the terms of EITHER ONE of these two licenses:
>  *
>  *  - the FreeType License version 1.1 or above (BSD-like)
>  *  - the GNU GPL (see below)
>  *
>  * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
>  * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
>  * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>  *
>  * "GNU GPL" refers to version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
>  * published by the Free Software Foundation, or (at your option) any later
>  * version. You should have received a copy of this license with this library;
>  * if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place
>  * - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
>  *
>  * For any questions, read: http://www.freetype.org/licenses.html.
>  */
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The idea is that we do not want to scare too many people by putting
> references to the GNU GPL in the header (you wouldn't believe the number
> of people who do not understand the dual-licensing :-), nor put something
> too long.
> 
> By the way, we'll need to contact all copyright holders to perform the
> change. I'm mainly thinking about the code for the 'type42' driver here.
> 
> Of course, this is based on the idea that the FreeType license is not
> GPL-compatible. If you really believe it is indeed compatible, we could
> simplify this statement even more...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - David Turner
> - The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)
> 
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Werner LEMBERG [mailto:address@hidden
> > Envoyé : jeudi 20 janvier 2005 21:58
> > À : address@hidden
> > Cc : address@hidden; address@hidden; Turner, David;
> > address@hidden
> > Objet : Re: [task #3659] Submission of The FreeType Project
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > In order to release your project properly and unambiguously under
> > > the GPL, please place copyright notices and permission-to-copy
> > > statements at the beginning of every file of source code.
> > 
> > We will do that, of course.  Currently, we don't have CVS access
> > (since the machine is broken), so it would be optimal for us if you
> > can install the CVS tarballs as-is on savannah without public access,
> > and that only David and I can modify files in the CVS until the
> > project is in good shape.
> > 
> > Is this possible?
> > 
> > > You can take this opportunity to add some missing notices (for
> > > example, in src/otlayout) :)
> > 
> > Actually, the otlayout directory is dead code and will be removed
> > soon...