Re: GNOME CVS: librsvg doml

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

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.
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Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>