[Savannah-register-public] Re: [task #3659] Submission of The FreeType Project

[Werner LEMBERG]

> What did you decide wrt dual licensing eventually?  Your notices
> point to a "LICENSE.TXT" file. I found a "license.txt" which mention
> dual-licensing.

We are still waiting for an answer from the FSF lawyers regarding
compatibility of the FreeType license with the GPL :-(

> Several files lack copyright and license notices.  Please update this
> files.

Right now I'm in the process of doing this.

> You should also add notices to the documentation.  We recommend the
> GFDL for this kind of work.

For simplicity and easier updating I'll refer to the same
dual-licensing stuff currently.  This will change as soon as we
receive a definite answer from the lawyers.

BTW, are the Debian people already accepting GFDL?

> Last, you might want to rephrase a part of PATENTS.
> "BE IT  IN  COMMERCIAL  OR  OPEN  SOURCE PRODUCTS."
> to
> "BE IT IN PROPRIETARY OR FREE SOFTWARE PRODUCTS."

Thanks for noticing it.

> Incidentally why does those patents make legal issues in France at
> the moment?  Were software patents already legal here in 1999?

Hehe, many national patent agencies have approved software patents
inspite of not being allowed to do that.  Additionally it is next to
useless to develop software which can't be used in the USA legally...

Except the double licensing issues, all other items are resolved now
in the CVS, I hope.


    Werner