Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > 1) Tesseract-OCR software has been released under Apache License 2.0 > > This license is know to be incompatible with the GPL because more > restrictive about patents: > > « Apache Software License, version 2.0 > > This is a free software license but it is incompatible with the GPL. The > Apache Software License is incompatible with the GPL because it has a > specific requirement that is not in the GPL: it has certain patent > termination cases that the GPL does not require. (We don't think those > patent termination cases are inherently a bad idea, but nonetheless they > are incompatible with the GNU GPL.) » > > Seen on: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html > > What are the implication of this on the use of this software inside a > GPLed project ?
That you can't link a GPL program against a library contain such code. If it is to write an application for Gnome (even part of Gnome) but not having a library that use said code for the Gnome platform, it is not a problem. And the Apache License 2.0 is not incompatible with LGPL, which mean that it can link against Gnome libraries. And as stated earlier, GPLv3 should address the problem. Hub _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
