Re: GNOME CVS: librsvg doml
- From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>
- To: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- Cc: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>, gnome-hackers gnome org, cinamod hotmail com
- Subject: Re: GNOME CVS: librsvg doml
- Date: 19 Mar 2003 10:44:51 +0100
Dom made sure that libcroco would be relicensed as LGPL even before he
started to calm down everyone :)
Christian
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 10:16, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:28:41PM -0500, Gnome CVS User wrote:
> > > CVSROOT: /cvs/gnome
> > > Module name: librsvg
> > > Changes by: doml 03/03/18 20:28:40
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > . : rsvg-styles.c
> > > gdk-pixbuf-loader: Makefile.am
> > > gimp-plugin : Makefile.am
> > > gtk-engine : Makefile.am
> > >
> > > Log message:
> > > bunch of croco-related fixes
> >
> > I've been meaning to ask if I am the only Nervous Nellie here. By
> > default, librsvg now links with libgsf and libcroco if they are present.
> > However, that changes the resulting library from librsvg's LGPL to GPL
> > for any derived code.
> >
> > This seems like a bit of a license trap to me; is it better turning the
> > gsf and croco dependencies off by default?
>
> I didn't know libcroco was GPL. Yeah, it sounds a bit dangerous to me. We
> typically want core libs to be LGPL. This change means no core lib can
> depend on librsvg and librsvg can't be a core lib.
>
> Maybe there is a way to affect the libcroco maintainers to relicense to
> LGPL? libgsf has already been relicensed.
--
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>
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