Hello, On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:23 AM, David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
