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

[Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad at khalifa dot ws>]

> From: Michael Sweet <>
> Not exactly.  There is an implied requirement that in order to
> comply with the LGPL you need to link dynamically to the library
> or provide source.  Also, you can't re-license the code under
> different terms, which is a requirement for us for any core code
> that we use - the licensee might be shipping on an embedded
> platform where source and shared libaries are simply not possible.

> That's not our interpretation - shared libraries/DLLs allow for
> this, but as long as there is no statement allowing for static
> linking (such as that provided by FLTK - http://www.fltk.org/)
> you can't link it statically without providing source, and that
> makes it impossible for us to use it for a core part of CUPS.

he obviously knows about licences so,
please give me a reply to this. or simply relicense FriBidi under
BSD licence or similar.

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ak.