Re: [ft-devel] freetype on the iPhone mentioned
Hello, On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:23 AM, David Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we don't know if they use FreeType to render glyphs. maybe they've taken a few lines of source code to parse certain tables, or whatnot :-) With Freetype being GPL (x)or modified BSD licensed*, doesn't this mean that either: - under GPL license, the complete Freetype dependent software should be GPL - under BSD license, non of the other software may be GPL? Does this mean that *if* Freetype is being used in iPhone, and the sources are kept closed, the BSD license must thus apply, and thus non of the dependent software may be GPL (due to the BSD/GPL license). on the other hand, I confirm you that FreeType is used as the font engine in Android. cheers - David I am not interested in nitting about the iPhone, I just want to understand how this applies to other semi-closed products who would like to use Freetype? Regards, -- Leon *http://www.freetype.org/license.html ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
RE: [ft-devel] freetype on the iPhone mentioned
FreeType is also the font engine in the Symbian and RIM operating systems. I know, because I put it there. And they are closed-source systems, although I believe Symbian is moving to open-source. There is no licensing difficulty as long as the use of FreeType is acknowledged. Graham Asher -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leon Woestenberg Sent: 25 September 2008 19:59 To: David Turner Cc: Behdad Esfahbod; freetype-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [ft-devel] freetype on the iPhone mentioned Hello, On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:23 AM, David Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we don't know if they use FreeType to render glyphs. maybe they've taken a few lines of source code to parse certain tables, or whatnot :-) With Freetype being GPL (x)or modified BSD licensed*, doesn't this mean that either: - under GPL license, the complete Freetype dependent software should be GPL - under BSD license, non of the other software may be GPL? Does this mean that *if* Freetype is being used in iPhone, and the sources are kept closed, the BSD license must thus apply, and thus non of the dependent software may be GPL (due to the BSD/GPL license). on the other hand, I confirm you that FreeType is used as the font engine in Android. cheers - David I am not interested in nitting about the iPhone, I just want to understand how this applies to other semi-closed products who would like to use Freetype? Regards, -- Leon *http://www.freetype.org/license.html ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] freetype on the iPhone mentioned
With Freetype being GPL (x)or modified BSD licensed*, doesn't this mean that either: - under GPL license, the complete Freetype dependent software should be GPL Yep. - under BSD license, none of the other software may be GPL? I think so, yes. Does this mean that *if* Freetype is being used in iPhone, and the sources are kept closed, the BSD license must thus apply, and thus non of the dependent software may be GPL (due to the BSD/GPL license). The `problem' is not the FreeType license but the GPL which prevents use of closed sources. Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
