[Fribidi-discuss] Re: Fribidi

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi Brian,

You are right about the license.  You can use it as a DLL,
provided you provide the source code for your FriBidi DLL.  There
have been ports for FriBidi in AbiWord project, and there are
some build system stuff in "win" folder of the FriBidi CVS.

About other terminal simulators, MLTerm is using FriBidi for a
long time now.

Yours
behdad


On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Brian Pence wrote:

> Hello!
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> I am the author of a Windows shareware terminal application
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> (telnet/ssh), and I'm considering using  the fribidi
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> implementation of Unicode bidi ordering.  I understand that
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> the library is covered under the LGPL, but even after reading
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> the LGPL, I'm not entirely convinced of what is does.
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> My *basic* understanding is that if I use fribidi in dll form and
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> allow the user to replace it with their own modified version,
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> this is within the rights and limits of the LGPL.  Am I right?
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> Also, are there any Windows ports of fribidi?
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> And also,  are there any other terminal software packages
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> that you know of that use fribidi?  I understand that putty
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> was considering it, but might have gotten caught up in
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> licensing terms.  Any others?
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> Thanks,
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> Brian Pence
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> Celestial Software
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> www.celestialsoftware.net
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--behdad
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