Am Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:58:33 +0200 schrieb Christopher Roy Bratusek <[email protected]>:
> 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 > ah yes and a COPYING.UTF8 should be added. I'll do that now. Chris
