[cairo] rendering UTF8 text

[Tor Lillqvist]

Ulrich Mierendorff writes:
 > But it is true that it depends on glib 

cairo does not depend on glib. What makes you think that?

 > which depends on gettext which is GPLed. And the GPL is a problem
 > for me and others.

gettext is not wholly GPL. The file gettext-runtime/COPYING from
gettext 0.16.1 says:

[[
    The gettext-runtime package is partially under the LGPL and
    partially under the GPL.

    The following parts are under the LGPL, see files
    intl/COPYING.LIB-2.0 and intl/COPYING.LIB-2.1:
      - the libintl and libasprintf libraries and their header files,
      - the libintl.jar Java library,
      - the GNU.Gettext.dll C# library,
      - the gettext.sh shells script function library.

    The following parts are under the GPL, see file COPYING in the
    toplevel directory:
      - the _programs_ gettext, ngettext, envsubst,
      - the documentation.
]]

In gettext 0.14.5, the file was even shorter:

[[
    The gettext-runtime package is under the LGPL, see files
    intl/COPYING.LIB-2.0 and intl/COPYING.LIB-2.1.
]]

So the gettext runtime library "libintl", which is what matters at
runtime for applications, is definitely LGPL.

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