openslide-users Digest, Vol 71, Issue 4

[Adam Askew]

Thank you. I clearly have read it wrong somewhere.
Thanks again
Adam

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> From: Adam Askew <adamfaskew at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Openslide licensing
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> I wonder if anyone can help me?
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> I am looking at using Openslide however, when I was looking through the
> licenses I got a bit confused.
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> 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/).
> According to the following license compatibility matrix (
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility) , this
> combination means that openslide can?t be licensed under LGPLv 2.1, instead
> it must be licensed under GPL v2.  Is this true or I am misreading this and
> Openslide is still licensed under LGPLv2.1
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> A big thanks if anyone can clear this up for me
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> Adam
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> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:53:51 -0500
> From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes at cs.cmu.edu>
> To: openslide-users at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: Openslide licensing
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> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 01:46:11PM +0000, Adam Askew via openslide-users
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> > 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
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> Jan
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