[Sugar-devel] Licensing of the javascript libraries

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn
<bkuhn at sfconservancy.org> wrote:
>> On 10 June 2013 18:17, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am guessing it is LGPLv2 only. The license is in the COPYING
>>> file,
>>> not in each SVG.
>>
>>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-artwork/blob/master/COPYING
>
> Daniel Narvaez wrote at 12:27 (EDT) on Monday:
>> Is the "or later" something that goes in the per file headers only (vs
>> the COPYING file)? There are C files which have the "or later" but the
>> svg ones have no header at all so...
>
> Actually, while I haven't done a full analysis, I can't see any cursory
> reason the whole repository it *isn't* LGPLv2-or-later.  Note the
> following text from LGPLv2:
>
>   Each version [of the LGPL] is given a distinguishing version number.
>   If the Library specifies a version number of this License which
>   applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of
>   following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any
>   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.  If the
>   Library does not specify a license version number, you may choose any
>   version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.
>
> The last sentence is the key.  Most of the files don't specify a version
> number, which means if we believe they're LGPL'd, they must be
> LGPLv2-or-later.
>
>
> But it sounds like there's still a relicensing task to be done for some
> code?  Does Sugar Labs need Conservancy's help with that?

For the Javascipt/HTML5 work, we are going to use Apache and would
like to fold in the artwork that is currently LGPL. So presumably a
second license is required. Any protocol for this that you recommend?
I'm happy to reach out to the authors.

thx

-walter

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> Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy



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