Peter Grasch <gra...@simon-listens.org> writes: > Hi! > > Am 2010-09-21 16:39, schrieb Simon Josefsson: >>>> Is Julius dynamically linked to Simon? I wonder whether GPLv2 is >>>> compatible with the Julius license. >>> Yes it is. The simon license contains a special exception to allow this. >>> This is also covered here: >>> http://www.simon-listens.org/wiki/index.php/Licensing >> It refers to 'under certain conditions as described in each individual >> source file' but I cannot find conditions described in any of a random >> sample I made of source code files in Simon? Can you point to one file >> that has the conditions? All source code files that are built into a >> package linked to Julius needs to have the exception, I believe, >> otherwise the file is under the GPLv2+ only without the exception. > You are right, I forgot that exception but added it to the two files > of the one class coming in direct contact with Julius (it's used > somewhere else too but there it just calls external programs). > > >> Also, any external GPL code that Simon links to needs to have the same >> exception. Is there any external GPL code? > Well of course - KDE.
I believe kdelibs is LGPL, so maybe you are OK. It depends on what parts of KDE is used. > This is getting ridiculously frustrating. It's not that I don't think > it's an important issue but I guess if you'd gather all involved > parties and ask them if the current setup would be ok I am pretty sure > everyone would agree. Oh well I guess that just comes with the > territory. I know the pain, I've ended up rewriting several projects because of license problems with earlier implementations. What I have learned is that you should react to license issues as soon as possible, or you'll end up investing a lot of work into something that needs to be redesigned. > I obviously can't hack this into simon 0.3.0 but for the next version, > would it help if I split the Julius-interfacing part into a plugin > that doesn't link to KDE? This would be the easiest option in my > opinion but as I understand it it would mean to distribute the plugin > seperately? > > If Julius is not "free" in Debian eyes this would mean that simon > becomes pretty much useless to be honest. I don't really have an opinion whether it is free or not yet, but it looks complicated. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tylirfuc....@mocca.josefsson.org
