On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:13:04PM +0200, Enrico Detoma wrote:
Dear Inkscape developers,
I would like to use livarot, which is now part of the Inkscape 0.43 source tree, in a LGPL library. I see that livarot was extensively patched with respect to its original public domain version and integrated with libnr.
However I see that both libraries' license was not changed (public domain), with the exception of a few libnr classes (which I do not need), which are explicitly marked as GPL.
For the LGPL library I'm working on, do I comply with the license by taking the patched Inkscape version of livarot/libnr (of course ensuring that no explicit GPL code is taken from the rest of Inkscape source tree)?
If you take only files marked as Public Domain and not GPL, then you can use those under LGPL without problem. If there are files you need as LGPL but that are currently labelled GPL, you must contact the author(s) of those files that are listed in the copyright statement for permission to use them under LGPL first.
Hope this helps, Bryce