Re: [ft-devel] freetype on the iPhone mentioned

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:23 AM, David Turner <address@hidden> wrote:
> we don't know if they use FreeType to render glyphs. maybe they've taken a
> few lines of source code to parse certain tables, or whatnot :-)
>
With Freetype being GPL (x)or modified BSD licensed*, doesn't this
mean that either:

- under GPL license, the complete Freetype dependent software should be GPL
- under BSD license,  non of the other software may be GPL?

Does this mean that *if* Freetype is being used in iPhone, and the
sources are kept closed, the BSD license must thus apply, and thus non
of the dependent software may be GPL (due to the BSD/GPL license).

> on the other hand, I confirm you that FreeType is used as the font engine in
> Android.
> cheers
> - David

I am not interested in nitting about the iPhone, I just want to
understand how this applies to other semi-closed products who would
like to use Freetype?

Regards,
-- 
Leon

*http://www.freetype.org/license.html