Hi Jonah Thank you for your answer. I had many doubts about the compatibility of EPL & GPL, and you gave me a good direction.
For the moment I just experiment some code, but I can contact the author for a dual licence (I cross my fingers). Have a nice day, Laurent Le mar. 22 sept. 2020 à 20:22, Jonah Graham <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi Laurent, > > Improved SVG sounds great. > > However GPL and Eclipse really do not get along well. Nothing in Eclipse > can depend on a GPL piece of code. Have a look at > https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/faq.php#h.sfzscklic49g > > For example, you couldn't add jFreeSVG to Orbit or to Nebula as a > dependency. > > Your best bet is to ask JFreeSVG to relicense or dual license. There are > only 4 committers on record, with the vast majority (99%) being the project > owner (https://github.com/jfree/jfreesvg/graphs/contributors). If he can > license it EPL then you are good to go. > > I am not a lawyer - but I hope the above is helpful. > > Jonah > > > ~~~ > Jonah Graham > Kichwa Coders > www.kichwacoders.com > > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 13:33, Laurent Caron <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I'm currently working on bug 566 565 : >> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=566565 >> >> The idea is to use the jFreeSVG library ( >> https://github.com/jfree/jfreesvg) and embed a swing object with SWT/AWT >> Bridge. >> >> I've got some questions >> >> a) The library is not a plugin. Should we use it as a "simple" library ? >> Should we create a plugin with the source code ? >> >> b) This library is under GPLv3 licence. Is it ok if we use in Nebula ? >> >> c) I'm also experiment a weird idea : port jFreeSVG to SWT. In this case, >> what is the process ? Is there any licence problem ? >> >> Thank you for your answers. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Laurent >> _______________________________________________ >> nebula-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this list, visit >> https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev >
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