Opened 19 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
#14 closed task (fixed)
Define License
| Reported by: | ktk | Owned by: | ktk |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Lucide Core | Version: | 1.0 Beta 1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
I asked Ulrich Möller about the license, Poppler is GPL but I would like to release Lucide itself as LGPL/CDDL dual-license if possible.
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 19 years ago
comment:2 by , 19 years ago
For now the plugins are dual-licensed with CDDL/LGPL, except the ones which are based on GPLed code, there we for sure use the GPL as well.
This topic is not finished yet, we will discuss that with SSI/Mensys about how we handle Lucide core in the future. For the current release the core is not open source.
comment:3 by , 19 years ago
| Milestone: | Beta 1 |
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| Version: | → 1.0 Beta 1 |
Moving this ticket to beta1 as well.
comment:4 by , 18 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Closed for the moment. Might be a new discussion later.
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Ulrich gave some comments about that (german text by him):
Das müsste alles gehen. Die GPL reicht immer nur so weit, wie das Urheberrecht an dem Werk reicht. Die GPL kann also nur "infizieren", was urheberrechtlich mit dem ursprünglichen Werk zusammenhängt. Auf englisch müsste Dein Viewer ein "derived work" (auf deutsch eine "Bearbeitung") von Poppler sein. Wenn Poppler aber nur ein Plugin für Deinen Viewer ist, ist Dein Viewer keine Bearbeitung von Poppler. Also kann Dein Viewer -- aus der Sicht von Poppler -- unter jeder beliebigen Lizenz stehen. Auch Dual-Lizenz, wenn Du willst.
Which means we can use any license we like for Lucide because the Poppler stuff (which is GPLed) is a plugin for the viewer and Lucide is thus not a derived work of Poppler at all.