Re: Help us with GPL / LGPL
- From: Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>
- To: sawfish-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Help us with GPL / LGPL
- Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:58:33 +0200
Am Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:33:28 +0900 (JST)
schrieb Teika Kazura <teika lavabit com>:
> Hi. If someone understands GPL / LGPL, please help us.
>
> Recently Wang Diancheng has sent us a nice code for librep (See May 31
> mail, or
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2009-May/msg00140.html)
>
> The problem is the copyright. Wang Diancheng borrowed code from
> glib, or more precisely, glib-2.x.y/glib/gutf8.c, which is licensed
> with LGPL. On the other hand, librep is GPL. Should it be GPL, or
> LGPL?
>
> I'd like to know what will be the proper copyright notice, too.
>
> gutf8.c starts as:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /* gutf8.c - Operations on UTF-8 strings.
> *
> * Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Tromey
> * Copyright (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
> *
> * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> [LGPL preamble follows]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The file by Wang Diancheng, named utf8.c, starts:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /* This file some code come from glib:
> * utf8.c - Operations on UTF-8 strings
> *
> * Copyright (C) 2009 Wang Diancheng.
> *
> * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> [LGPL preamble follows]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Is it enough?
>
> # I have never understood GPL. Why not bsd license?
>
> Thanks beforehand,
> Teika (Teika kazura)
>
aditionally an entry in CREDITS to the glib-devs and that should be
enough to my knowledge. (That's how I did it all other the time and
never ran into problems)
But of course I can't say that I'm 100% sure.
Chris
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