Re: [ft] [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-19 Thread David Turner
Hello Alexei, On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > 3. Grant of Patent License. > > > > > > Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent? Don't you > need it first before granting any patent li

Re: [ft] [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent? AFAIK, no. > Don't you need it first before granting any patent license? We want to cover contributed code. Let's assume that company XXX contributes code to have support for its new font driver format in FreeType, and we accept such

Re: [ft] [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-18 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >  3. Grant of Patent License. > > Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent? Don't you need it first before granting any patent license? This is one strange and curious discussion thread without a patent at hand. There is

Re: [ft] [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-18 Thread David Turner
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > But its GPLv2 only :-( > > Apache 2 is GPLv3 compatible. > > So I'd suggest either using Apache 2, or using FreeType License 1.1 > and GPLv2-or-later. > > Apache 2 or GPLv2-or-later have the same problems: they require changing the licens

Re: [ft] [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-17 Thread Dave Crossland
On 17 January 2012 09:25, David Turner wrote: > An easier approach would be to ask for all future contributions to be > covered by "FreeType License 1.1", > ... >> Apache2 is not compatible with GPLv2 notably because of this >> particular patent clause (that's the general agreement anyway -- some

Re: [ft] [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-17 Thread David Turner
Hello, Just to make it clear, I'm too in favor of adding an Apache2-like patent clause to the license. And for the sake of full-disclosure, my employer does releases quite a large amount of Apache-2 licensed code. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Eric Rannaud wrote: >

Re: [ft] [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Are you willing to do the work to make sure no FreeType contributor > currently has a patent on code they have contributed? This should be doable, given that there are just a handful of contributors who added longer, non-trivial stuff. Werner

Re: [ft] [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 01/13/2012 02:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Comments? Are you willing to do the work to make sure no FreeType contributor currently has a patent on code they have contributed? Changing the license for upcoming contributions is a welcome addition to me, without the hassle of relicensing. b

Re: [ft] [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-13 Thread Eric Rannaud
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 13 January 2012 20:13, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> I would like to add something similar, with the exception that code >> especially marked as patented within the FreeType source code is not >> covered. >> >> Comments? > > Why not just swi