Hi Luis, On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:46:21PM -0500, Luis Bustamante wrote: > JpGraph is an OO class library for PHP 4.1 (or higher). JpGraph > makes it easy to draw both "quick and dirty" graphs with a minimum of > code and complex professional graphs which requires a very fine grain > control. JpGraph is equally well suited for both scientific and > business type of graphs. > [cc to debian-legal@lists.debian.org] > I want to package this software because the latest version of > acidlab (which hasn't been uploaded yet[1]) requires it instead of > phplot like previous version for graphing alert data of an > IDS/Firewall. Anyway I'm not sure if we can include it in Debian as it > uses QPL 1.0 and the author says in his page: > "JpGraph is released under a dual license. QPL 1.0 (Qt Free > Licensee) For non-commercial, open-source and educational use and > JpGraph Professional License[2] for commercial use." > Can we include it in non-free despite the restriction it holds for > commercial use? (if so acidlab should be in contrib then) > References: > 1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155212 > 2. http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/jpgprolicense.pdf If the QPL permits redistribution (I haven't read that license in a while), it should be ok for non-free. If acidlab upstream uses JpGraph, then of course you have little choice; but you might be interested to point them towards Vagrant <http://vagrant.sourceforge.net/>, an imlib-based PHP graphing class available under the GPL that gives very impressive-looking results. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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