Dear RibbonSoft! I'm a packager with the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution. I'm packaging SAGA GIS (https://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/), which uses dxflib. I read that the "Open Source Edition" of dxflib was licensed under the terms of GPL version 2. While this is clearly stated in the headers of the source code, the file dxflib_commercial_license.txt causes us headache. """ NOTE: dxflib Open Source Edition is licensed under the terms of the GPL and not under this Agreement. If Licensee has, at any time, developed all (or any portions of) the Application(s) using RibbonSoft's publicly licensed dxflib Open Source Edition, Licensee must comply with RibbonSoft's requirements and license such Application(s) (or any portions derived there from) under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License version 2 (the "GPL") a copy of which is located at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html#SEC1 (i.e., any Product(s) and/or parts, components, portions thereof developed using GPL licensed software, including dxflib Open Source Edition, must be licensed under the terms of the GPL, and the GPL-based source code must be made available upon request). """ Tom Callaway of Red Hat found this statement was not in line with the GPL and therefore non-free: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-October/001734.html It'd be great if we could work this out together. A clear license situation would allow to include dxflib in Fedora and other distributions that care about software freedom. Sincerely, Volker Fröhlich _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
