Comments regarding freehep-graphicsio-pdf_2.1.1+dfsg-1_amd64.changes

[Giovanni Mascellani]

Hi.

Gabriele Giacone ha scritto:
> On 03/11/2010 11:30 PM, Torsten Werner wrote:
>> after accepting the first FreeHEP package by accident I have found out that
>> http://java.freehep.org/license.html mentions both LGPL-2.1 and LGPL-3. What is
>> the correct license (version)?
> 
> The correct version is LGPL-2.1 as d/copyright states.
> This thread [1] gives more info about freehep packages licensing status
> that is not changed during last months and upstream didn't fix the
> mismatch on the freehep homepage yet.
> Anyway, all of freehep-graphicsio-* packages are part of Freehep
> Vectorgraphics and its license page [2] is correct.

As stated in [1], all the packages from vectorgraphics (of which
freehep-graphicsio-pdf and other are part) are under a LGPL license. No
version is explicitly chosen, so my understanding is that I can choose
the version I want (see LGPL-3, sixth article). We decided to put
LGPL-2-1+, as stated in debian/copyright.

 [1]
http://java.freehep.org/svn/repos/freehep/show/freehep/trunk/vectorgraphics/LICENSE.txt

I hope this is enough to clear the situation! :-)

Thanks, Giovanni.
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