License problem with JPGraph
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Fri Apr 6 11:07:50 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 13:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Steven Bakker wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 08:17 +0200, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> >
> >> I'm the maintainer of JPGraph in Fedora (a php graphing library). I thought
> >> its licence was QPL by reading this:
> >> http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/jpdownload.php
> >> but apparently I misread it and jpgraph is only Free for non-commercial use.
> >> JPGraph used to be fully QPL a long time ago, but that changed.
> >
> > Actually, the text reads:
> >
> > JpGraph is released under a dual license. QPL 1.0 (Qt Free
> > Licensee) For non-commercial, open-source or educational use and
> > JpGraph Professional License for commercial use.
> >
> > So QPL applies for (non-commercial || open-source || educational) use.
> > I'd say Fedora fits in the "open-source" category.
>
> It might. However the wording appears to attempt to classify open source
> along with non commercial and educational sort of projects while it
> might very well be used commercially or be part of a larger commercial
> product.
>
> Considering what we have things like EPEL, we definitely need a
> clarification from the authors.
Agreed. Without additional clarification, I would recommend removing it
from the repository.
josh
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