[cairo] Re: License for cairo changed to LGPL

[Carol Spears]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:59:55PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [ 
>   I wont be able to read any replies until two weeks from now
>   as am going on vacation -miguel
> ]
> 
> > > this prevents our users on embedded systems 
> > > from creating a applications that do not 
> > > offer the LGPL requirements
> > 
> > I thought the mono libraries are under LGPL, too.
> 
> They are dual licensed and they are offered without the linking
> restriction to folks that need so.
> 
> Those who needed that paid for the work to get Mono on PPC (Linux and
> MacOS) and also paid for the precompilation of binaries (Ahead of Time
> compilation) and a few hooks to do real time systems.
> 
> We can do that as we own the whole copyright of Mono, but am afraid that
> Cairo going GPL without copyright assignment and a path to have
> proprietary extensions will not permit that use.
> 
wow, so novell will not be able to use cairo because it is free?  i
think it is time to rejoice and feel sorry for ximian and the mono
project.

good luck out there.

carol