Andre Renaud <an...@bluewatersys.com> writes: >>>> As the code comes from the Android code base, it is Apache licensed - >>>> is this a problem with Pixman? >>> >>> I am not a lawyer, but Apache license does not seem to be >>> compatible with GPL2 according to: >>> http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html >>> This is an extra restriction, which does not exist in the current >>> pixman MIT/X11 license. I personally would not touch Apache licensed >>> code without a really good reason. >> >> Yeah, unfortunately we can't ship Apache licensed code in pixman. > > Thanks for all the feedback, I'll probably take a look at the bugs & > check them. However given that the license is incompatible, it doesn't > seem like there is much point in continuing with this, as it's not > possible for it to be merged. Unfortunately I don't think my ARM ASM > skills are up to recreating these from scratch. > > Is the Pixman project GPL2? I thought it was all MIT - is that an > upcoming change?
It's all MIT, but if we added Apache licensed code, it would effectively become Apache licensed and therefore among other things become incompatible with GPL2. Søren _______________________________________________ Pixman mailing list Pixman@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pixman
