-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does no one have an opinion on this?
On 2014-09-14 13:02, Antonius Riha wrote: > Hi gtk-sharp community, I'm currently looking into the issue that > the cairo library binding code exists in 2 different places: Once > in the gtk-sharp repository and the second time in the class > libraries of the mono repository. In my opinion, the 2 code bases > are very similar and should be merged and put into a separate > repository. I've filed 2 bugs with the respective components, see > [1] and [2] for details. > > Since the cairo bindings are not distributed as a standalone > package (but with gtk-sharp and mono), an eventual new cairo-sharp > git repository should only be used as a simple source code > container with a minimal MSBuild build infrastructure for > development. This repository can be included in gtk-sharp and mono > as git submodule. Since its not a package per se, it doesn't make > sense to set up an autotools build system, which would just add to > the repo overhead. > > There are some issues with this task. Primarily, the two libraries > are licensed differently: The mono version it licensed as MIT/X11, > whereas the gtk-sharp version is under LGPLv2. For merging the > code, it would be best, if both had the same license. Since the > mono class libraries are distributed as MIT/X11, I would suggest to > attempt to relicense the Cairo# portion of the gtk-sharp repository > as MIT/X11.[3] > > My questions to he community are: * Are there any other opinions > about this issue, or whether this is actually an issue? * Which > would be the necessary steps to relicense the Cairo# protion of the > code as MIT/X11? > > - antonius > > > [1] https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22975 > > [2] https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22976 > > [3] About the gtk-sharp package license: Since (to my knowledge) > you can relicense MIT/X11 code as LGPLv2 without consent of the > code owners (but not the other way around), I think it would be no > problem to put the entire package (including the imported submodule > Cairo#) under LGPLv2. (Note though that IANAL.) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUKkNuAAoJEI2lsCv1vbcLzqAIAJBJ0jQ2YbnNK55GyEFrXe6x ypLSBh91okOvLKaaSQXA9hTLGWlGXn0QlZGwx80AfzsANTEGsfHw+EVQ00QiN2oW BDoqqBk61pAQlTbglfT5ynLxHCQqpNvoupqsqU+nJ/8aegtu+mAjznDbQAKy6XI4 QOEVsqkrMPT40eB/tklgjezMZklZM17LS6YV/RzpRAkZHbmDhK/N5ZVoTFqLXChw sNxacqnmU9fuqQesOtKED40AxTyYsXFeBRntM6jrWmUSpEWxaV1sQeiiNN8tegU+ DT/foP9JhRY1zE0NXq3W+k0MfNoG3r+kpUNZ87nuMaubXKGlopj6NuPY+iFz7lU= =Y5Vb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gtk-sharp-list maillist - Gtk-sharp-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gtk-sharp-list
