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

["Anmar Oueja" <anmar at canada dot com>]

Hello All:

this is a very valid argument. How can CUPS use Glibc, which is LGPL, and
can't use Fribidi, which is also LGPL ?

Please find an answer to this.

Anmar

>
> FriBidi is not going to change license.  If that happen someday,
> it would become GPLed.  So, forget about it.  But the problem is
> that they keep saying "you can't re-license the code under
> different terms, which is a requirement for us for any core code
> that we use", what does "core code" mean here?  FriBidi is a
> library they can use, just like they use libc!
>
> Feel free to forget about using FriBidi.  I will write in detail
> about this later.
>
> behdad
>
> PS.  One last note, No, people don't know about licenses
> typically.  Every single individual has his own idea about what
> GPL and LGPL mean...  BTW, I'm still looking for the adequate
> answer in the FSF community for the case that shared libraries
> are technically impossible on a platform.
>
>
> On Mon, 24 May 2004, Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  > 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.
>>
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