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Re: FLTK License



On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:43:14 +0100 MJ Ray wrote:

> Francesco Poli wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:54:00 +0000 MJ Ray wrote:
> > [...]
> > > What extra restrictions?  The exceptions looked like actual
> > > exceptions, assuming that "identify their use of FLTK" is in the
> > > LGPL-2.1... which it appears to be, in section 1.
> >
> > Could you please elaborate on this?
> 
> "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Library's
> complete source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that
> you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an
> appropriate copyright notice" and assuming that "an appropriate
> copyright notice" does "identify their use of FLTK" sufficiently.
> 
> This then permeates the rest of the licence and the additional
> permission to use section 6 without having to pass on the licence
> doesn't change that requirement.

As Joe Smith has just explained in more detail, one of the two license
versions includes a more specific requirement to embed a verbatim
sentence in user documentation: I cannot find any such restriction in
the GNU LGPL v2.1...


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