[mapserver-dev] FW: License of librsvg

[Daniel Morissette]

Excellent news! Thanks a lot for looking into this.

Daniel

On 14-01-07 4:17 AM, 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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