[Fribidi-discuss] License question to the project owners

[Paulo Soares]

I won't use the C version as it is. I'll port the parts I need from the C
version to Java. Probably after the conversion it would be difficult to see
where it came from but I like to keep things legal.

I know about the reference implementation but I'm not sure about the
licensing and in any case I would be more confortable with something that
has proven in the field.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Beni Cherniavsky [SMTP:cben at techunix.technion.ac.il]
> Sent:	Friday, July 11, 2003 12:10
> To:	Paulo Soares
> Cc:	'fribidi-discuss at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject:	Re: [Fribidi-discuss] License question to the project owners
> 
> Paulo Soares wrote on 2003-07-11:
> 
> > I'm an iText (www.lowagie.com/iText) developer. iText is a java library
> for
> > the generation of PDF documents that has a dual license, LGPL or
> MPL/LGPL.
> >
> > I decided to look around for an awt independent solution to get the
> order
> > levels and fribidi came on top of my list not only for conformance
> reasons
> > but also because it has a clean architecture, or at least an
> architecture
> > that I can understand.
> >
> Fribidi is in C which will require an extra wrapper layer.  `UAX 9`_
> has demo code in C++ and Java, is that of any use (code-wise and
> license-wise)?  I must admit I never looked at it, just guessing that
> it's worth a look since your library is in Java...
> 
> .. _UAX 9: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-11.html
> 
> -- 
> Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
> 
> If I don't hack on it, who will?  And if I don't GPL it, what am I?
> And if it itches, why not now?  [With apologies to Hilel ;]