[mapserver-dev] FW: License of librsvg

[thomas bonfort]

Thanks Martin for following up, this is great news.

-- 
thomas



On 07 Jan 2014, at 10:17, <Martin.Icking at bentley.com> <Martin.Icking at bentley.com> wrote:

> In the meantime I've got a precise answer from one of the librsvg authors - see below. So the librsvg library is LGPL-licensed - so no issue to use it by MapServer.
> 
> Best regards
> Martin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Persch [] 
> Sent: Montag, 6. Januar 2014 14:54
> To: Martin Icking
> Subject: Re: License of librsvg
> 
> Hi;
> 
> Am Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:25:00 +0000
> schrieb <Martin.Icking >:
> 
>> Hi Christian,
>> librsvg is listed as being dual licensed (GPL and LGPL) in Wikipedia 
>> and in the sources we see two files COPYING (GPL) and COPYING.LIB 
>> (LGPL). So can we handle librsvg as being LGPL'ed? If yes I'd suggest 
>> to change the Appendix A of the "RSVG Library Reference 
>> Manual<https://developer.gnome.org/rsvg/2.40/licence.html>" which 
>> mentions only the GPL license. Thanks Martin
> 
> The licence mentioned in the manual is the manual's licence. The manual is a combination of GPL text and pulling in lots of LGPL text (from the source code gtk-doc comments) so the aggregate is GPL. The library itself is purely LGPL. Maybe the manual should make that clearer... see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692425 .
> 
> Regards,
> 	C. Persch
> 
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