Openslide licensing

Jan Harkes jaharkes at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Dec 14 08:53:51 EST 2015


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 01:46:11PM +0000, Adam Askew via openslide-users wrote:
> I wonder if anyone can help me?
> 
> I am looking at using Openslide however, when I was looking through the
> licenses I got a bit confused.
> 
> Openslide is licensed under LGPL v2.1 but it has a dependency on two other
> libraries which are licensed under GPL v2 (
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/ & https://developer.gnome.org/glib/).

Not sure where you are getting GPLv2 from, gdk-pixbuf and glib are both
LGPL licensed.

    https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/tree/COPYING
    https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib.html

Jan



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