Am Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:33:28 +0900 (JST) schrieb Teika Kazura <[email protected]>:
> Hi. If someone understands GPL / LGPL, please help us. > > Recently Wang Diancheng has sent us a nice code for librep (See May 31 > mail, or > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2009-May/msg00140.html) > > The problem is the copyright. Wang Diancheng borrowed code from > glib, or more precisely, glib-2.x.y/glib/gutf8.c, which is licensed > with LGPL. On the other hand, librep is GPL. Should it be GPL, or > LGPL? > > I'd like to know what will be the proper copyright notice, too. > > gutf8.c starts as: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > /* gutf8.c - Operations on UTF-8 strings. > * > * Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Tromey > * Copyright (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. > * > * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > [LGPL preamble follows] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The file by Wang Diancheng, named utf8.c, starts: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > /* This file some code come from glib: > * utf8.c - Operations on UTF-8 strings > * > * Copyright (C) 2009 Wang Diancheng. > * > * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > [LGPL preamble follows] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Is it enough? > > # I have never understood GPL. Why not bsd license? > > Thanks beforehand, > Teika (Teika kazura) > aditionally an entry in CREDITS to the glib-devs and that should be enough to my knowledge. (That's how I did it all other the time and never ran into problems) But of course I can't say that I'm 100% sure. Chris
