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

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Anmar Oueja wrote:

> 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 ?

Well, I know the answer myself :">.  They talk to Glibc on an
standard interface, which is then replaced by other libc's on
other platforms.  But the case of FriBidi is really something
like say libjpeg, libpng, etc.

behdad


> 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.
> >>
> >> feel free to post to the Newsgroup yourself, you can
> >> use this form,
> >> http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.development+Gcups
> >>
> >> or a newsreader like mozilla's
> >> nntp://news.easysw.com
> >>
> >>
> >> ak.
> >>
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