Hi, Am Dienstag 26 Juni 2007 schrieb Gene Heskett: > >I am not sure if xfig and truetype-tracer are incompatible. The > >GPL requires that a derivative work also be distributed under the > >GPL, but the xfig license allows the program to become proprietary: > > > > Any party obtaining a copy of these files is granted, > > free of charge, a full and unrestricted irrevocable, > > world-wide, paid up, royalty-free, nonexclusive right > > and license to deal in this software and documentation > > files (the "Software"), including without limitation > > the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish > > distribute, sublicense and/or sell copies of the > > Software, and to permit persons who receive copies from > > any such party to do so, with the only requirement > > being that the above copyright and this permission > > notice remain intact. > > > >Since Till's right to "modify/merge/publish/distribute" xfig is > >"unrestricted", it might be possible for him to use the GPL for the > >combined work. I don't know what it means for this "notice" to > >"remain intact" but that's a requirement. Is "intact" the same as "in > >effect"? I hope someone else who knows more than me can help.
The problem imho is, that the xfig license says that "this permission notice has to remain intact" which basically says that you are allowed to distribute it however you want (e.g. without source code). The GPL explicitely forbits you to do exactly that. That they are imho incompatible. > >Till to release it under the terms of the GPL. But, I suspect the > >intent of the xfig authors was to allow anyone to make the program > >proprietary (even if the words don't say exactly that). In that case, > >Till unfortunately can't satisfy both licenses and cannot distribute > >the combined work. Yes, that's my interpretation as well. > Would this not be considered 100% kosher then if ttt was left out of the > xfig packaging, and became an optional subroutine for xfig if the > .configure script found it installed? Argh ... while it's probably possible to distribute a patch that combines both softwrae packages on the users machine into the resulting binary, i don't think i want to go through that hassle. > I'm grasping at straws here Chris because this has the potential to be a > really great package if all the other bits and pieces can be sorted. Ah, there are other great packages out there and e.g. most of you asked for inkscape versions, anyway. > current maintainer is powerless to get it actually included in any linux > distro that I'm aware of. If you know that particular Larry Campbell, When including xfig into a distro you don't have these problems. But noone ever included GPLd code into xfig. I think there's a reason for it. Till ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
