John et al.,
"Agg 2.5 will ship with a libsigc++ license that will allow us to treat the code as MIT X11 unless the code is pulled out, allowing Antigrain to be used internally for Silverlight and allowing them to license Antigrain for other customers."
I found the above quote on this page: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
I don't understand it; does it mean that we, too, can continue using future versions of Agg?
Eric
Weird. It reads to me more like they struck some sort of deal whereby the code can be used as MIT X11 as long as it’s an internal part of Silverlight, but if removed from Silverlight, then it will revert to the current GPL/commercial dual license.
–bb
On 9/24/07, Eric Firing <efiring@…229…> wrote:
John et al.,
"Agg 2.5 will ship with a libsigc++ license that will allow us to treat
the code as MIT X11 unless the code is pulled out, allowing Antigrain to
be used internally for Silverlight and allowing them to licenseAntigrain for other customers."
I found the above quote on this page: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
I don’t understand it; does it mean that we, too, can continue using
future versions of Agg?
Bill Baxter wrote:
John et al.,
"Agg 2.5 will ship with a libsigc++ license that will allow us to treat
the code as MIT X11 unless the code is pulled out, allowing Antigrain to
be used internally for Silverlight and allowing them to license
Antigrain for other customers."I found the above quote on this page:
Redirecting…I don't understand it; does it mean that we, too, can continue using
future versions of Agg?Weird. It reads to me more like they struck some sort of deal whereby the code can be used as MIT X11 as long as it's an internal part of Silverlight, but if removed from Silverlight, then it will revert to the current GPL/commercial dual license.
--bb
Maybe this is the result of the Mono people contacting Maxim as suggested by his 10/26 news post here: http://www.antigrain.com/news/index.html
"# Current AGG users who are willing to continue using AGG under the old terms and conditions are encouraged to contact me and I will consider their requests."
Eric
On 9/24/07, *Eric Firing* <efiring@...229... > <mailto:efiring@…229…>> wrote:
This is certainly a possibility for us. We are still on agg 2.3
actually, so I don't see this as a burning issue, but if we ever need
to upgrade from 2.4 or want upgrade for bugfixes, etc, I will email
Maxim and ask him about licensing options.
JDH
On 9/24/07, Eric Firing <efiring@...229...> wrote:
Maybe this is the result of the Mono people contacting Maxim as
suggested by his 10/26 news post here:
http://www.antigrain.com/news/index.html"# Current AGG users who are willing to continue using AGG under the old
terms and conditions are encouraged to contact me and I will consider
their requests."
Bill Baxter wrote:
John et al.,
"Agg 2.5 will ship with a libsigc++ license that will allow us to treat
the code as MIT X11 unless the code is pulled out, allowing Antigrain to
be used internally for Silverlight and allowing them to license
Antigrain for other customers."I found the above quote on this page:
Redirecting…I don't understand it; does it mean that we, too, can continue using
future versions of Agg?Weird. It reads to me more like they struck some sort of deal whereby
the code can be used as MIT X11 as long as it's an internal part of
Silverlight, but if removed from Silverlight, then it will revert to the
current GPL/commercial dual license.
Unfortunately, that's not how these licenses work. Moonlight is LGPL/commercial
dual-licensed. If they intend to continue that way and incorporate Agg 2.5 into
it under special terms from Maxim, then Moonlight will still be LGPL/commercial,
*including* Agg 2.5. The LGPL allows one to extract a part of the LGPLed work
and use it separately under the LGPL license. If Maxim agrees to let Agg 2.5 be
used in an LGPLed Moonlight, then he can't then require that Agg 2.5 will only
be used in the context of Moonlight. Someone is confused, here (and it's not me
:-)).
Also unfortunately, this has no bearing on matplotlib. matplotlib still can't
use Agg 2.5 under an MIT/X11-style license. Asking Maxim for a special license
won't help because that license can't be MIT/X11 or anything near as free as
matplotlib's license without his giving away Agg 2.5 as a whole under that free
license.
On 9/24/07, *Eric Firing* > <efiring@...229... > <mailto:efiring@…229…>> wrote:
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco