Re: Pango licensing problem?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh sharif edu> writes:

> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > FreeType is dual licensed under GPL and the FreeType license,
> > so there is no problem using it with GPL code.
> 
> No Owen, only FreeType 2 is dual licensed, but not the parts you are
> including from FreeType 1. The files mentioned are explicitly only under
> the FreeType license. The copyright line of 'ftxgpos.c' is 1996-2000, for
> example, while FreeType project's switch to dual licensing only happened
> in October 2001. I guess we need to ask the original authors to rerelease
> the files under the new dual license.

The README in CVS for freetype1 indicates that it is dual licensed
as well.

Regards,
                                        Owen