[Fribidi-discuss] licenses

Dov Grobgeld dov at imagic.weizmann.ac.il
Thu May 9 23:47:02 EST 2002


Salaam/Shalom Mohammed,

FriBidi is LGPL'd and it has been from the very beginning. It was
part of my hope that it will encourage free software and cooporation 
in the Middle East. Just look at fribidi.h .

Regards,
Dov Grobgeld
-- Original fribidi author 

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:01:29PM -0500, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> There was some talk some time ago on the XFree86 i18n list about changing the
> FriBiDi license. I was wondering if this is likely to happen. It would be
> really nice if FriBiDi was LGPL'ed, giving us more freedom to include it with
> non GPL'ed applications. That, we really really need ;)
> 
> Thanks.
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