On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 12:30 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote: > There are some yet to be resolved licensing issues with openh323/pwlib > that Paul was looking into.
pwlib/work/main.d/pwlib-1.8.7/ReadMe.txt under license: openh323 has the same license. ---snip--- 9. Licensing ------------ The bulk of this library is licensed under the MPL (Mozilla Public License) version 1.0. In simple terms this license allows you to use the library for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, provided the library is kept in tact as a separate entity and any changes made to the library are made publicly available under the same (MPL) license. It is important to realise that that refers to changes to the library and not your application that is merely linked to the library. Note that due to a restriction in the GPL, any application you write that uses anything another than GPL, eg our library with MPL, is technically in breach of the GPL license. However, it should be noted that MPL does not care about the license of the final application, and as only the author of the GPL application is in breach of his own license and is unlikely to sue themselves for that breach, in practice there is no problem with a GPL application using an MPL or any other commercial library. ---snip--- It seems ok to me. Both Fedora (Red Hat) and Ubuntu (Debian) ship pwlib/openh323 so it seems absurd to me that we wouldn't include a garball for them. Especially when you consider that we don't ship any software, just a link to the software. Paul...? Bob -- Bob Kashani http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
