Bill Baxter wrote: > > On 9/24/07, *Eric Firing* > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > John et al., > > "Agg 2.5 will ship with a libsigc++ license that will allow us to treat > the code as MIT X11 unless the code is pulled out, allowing Antigrain to > be used internally for Silverlight and allowing them to license > Antigrain for other customers." > > I found the above quote on this page: > http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight > > I don't understand it; does it mean that we, too, can continue using > future versions of Agg? > > Weird. It reads to me more like they struck some sort of deal whereby > the code can be used as MIT X11 as long as it's an internal part of > Silverlight, but if removed from Silverlight, then it will revert to the > current GPL/commercial dual license.
Unfortunately, that's not how these licenses work. Moonlight is LGPL/commercial dual-licensed. If they intend to continue that way and incorporate Agg 2.5 into it under special terms from Maxim, then Moonlight will still be LGPL/commercial, *including* Agg 2.5. The LGPL allows one to extract a part of the LGPLed work and use it separately under the LGPL license. If Maxim agrees to let Agg 2.5 be used in an LGPLed Moonlight, then he can't then require that Agg 2.5 will only be used in the context of Moonlight. Someone is confused, here (and it's not me :-)). Also unfortunately, this has no bearing on matplotlib. matplotlib still can't use Agg 2.5 under an MIT/X11-style license. Asking Maxim for a special license won't help because that license can't be MIT/X11 or anything near as free as matplotlib's license without his giving away Agg 2.5 as a whole under that free license. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
