Re: [Fwd: Re: CUPS Arabic support ?]

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Hello Ahmad:

I think first we need to make sure that Fribidi license will be a 
problem for CUPS. If not, there is always other avenues that can be explored


Anmar

Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
> ok, here is how we stand. what should i do ????
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: CUPS Arabic support ?
> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 15:01:06 -0400
> From: Michael Sweet <>
> Organization: Easy Software Products
> Newsgroups: cups.development
>
> Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
>
> > the patch is now almost ready, but...
> > we feel that changing the Bidi Engine from
> > minibidi to Fribidi would be better for CUPS.
> >
> > Fribidi is available as an external library and
> > it already comes out-of-the-box in some distros.
> > as the Bidi Algorithm changes over time it would
> > be better to use Fribidi.
> >
> > your opinion on this please ?
>
>
> Without knowing the details of the license for Fribidi (do you have
> a link), I can't say.  Any patch that is accepted into CUPS MUST
> allow for relicensing (we license CUPS to third parties like Apple
> who often want additional rights beyond those allowed by the GPL).
> If Fribidi is GPL'd, then we can't use it.