On 11/18/2012 05:21 PM, Volker Froehlich wrote: > Dear list readers! > > I got no further response from Ribbonsoft. Is the below statement strong > enough to consider dxflib free? Unfortunately not. Red Hat Legal has concerns about the following text: 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). We're not sure what that means, or what they're trying to accomplish, but it seems to imply that software which uses dxflib must be licensed under the GPL as well (which is not how the GPL works). It would be helpful if Ribbonsoft could describe what they're trying to accomplish here, or even better, drop this text entirely (as that should resolve the outstanding issue). ~tom == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
