[Gnash-dev] Re: Gnash-dev Digest, Vol 59, Issue 21

[dww]

Inversely, if the Gnash project copy and pasted code (and edited or not)
from Lightspark for a Gnash AVM2, would there be a clash of licenses?

Dennis

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> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:25:40 -0700
> From: Rob Savoye <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Gnash-dev] Reuse of Gnash code in Lightspark
> To: Timon Van Overveldt <address@hidden>
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> On 12/18/10 10:19, Timon Van Overveldt wrote:
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> > Having Gnash's implementation as a reference has been very helpful in
> > understanding how to implement this functionality.
> 
>   The wonders of free software. :-)
> 
> > Now I was wondering about the following:
> > Lightspark is licensed under the LGPL3, while Gnash is licensed under GPL3.
> > Are you guys ok with me licensing my implementation under LGPL3?
> > Am I breaching the terms of the license by doing this?
> > If I am, please note that this is not on purpose and that I will try to
> > resolve the situation immediately.
> 
>   Well, Gnash is also a GNU project, so the copyright for the External
> Interface code is owned by the FSF. I believe you'd need to ask RMS or
> Eben for a real opinion. The decision isn't really up to the Gnash team,
> or even myself, who wrote the External Interface code, because of this.
> Because Gnash is not a library, the GPLv3 has been fine.
> 
>       - rob -
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