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digitalmars.D - deimos libx11 license

reply "luminousone" <rd.hunt gmail.com> writes:
I finely got around to checking the libx11 deimos project for 
updates, i haven't updated in ages, and the github has a LGPL 
license file included with it, is this intentional?, The opengl 
deimos library does not contain this, are all of the deimos 
projects LGPL, or is their some sort of error in this repository 
containing this?
Aug 12 2013
parent reply Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 05:53:50 luminousone wrote:

 I finely got around to checking the libx11 deimos project for
 updates, i haven't updated in ages, and the github has a LGPL
 license file included with it, is this intentional?, The opengl
 deimos library does not contain this, are all of the deimos
 projects LGPL, or is their some sort of error in this repository
 containing this?


Deimos projects have no relation to each other beyond the fact that they're 
all in the same group on github. They're simply D bindings to a variety of 
unrelated libraries which were written in C. So, the license of one project 
has no bearing on the license of another.

Given that they're bindings, I would expect them to have the same license as 
the original C code. In the case of flac, I outright copied the copyrights from 
the C code. It really doesn't make much sense IMHO to give the bindings a 
different license from the original. At best, you might be able to get away 
with marking them as Boost, but since you'd be using the original library to 
do anything, you'd still be restricted by its license. But I'm not a lawyer, 
so I don't know what all of the murky details are. It just seemed simplest to 
me to copy the copyrights over.

As for the opengl deimos project, I don't know what its license is. It's 
probably listed in the copyright notices in the files.

- Jonathan M Davis
Aug 12 2013
parent reply "luminousone" <rd.hunt gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 13 August 2013 at 05:03:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

 On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 05:53:50 luminousone wrote:

 I finely got around to checking the libx11 deimos project for
 updates, i haven't updated in ages, and the github has a LGPL
 license file included with it, is this intentional?, The opengl
 deimos library does not contain this, are all of the deimos
 projects LGPL, or is their some sort of error in this 
 repository
 containing this?


 Deimos projects have no relation to each other beyond the fact 
 that they're
 all in the same group on github. They're simply D bindings to a 
 variety of
 unrelated libraries which were written in C. So, the license of 
 one project
 has no bearing on the license of another.

 Given that they're bindings, I would expect them to have the 
 same license as
 the original C code. In the case of flac, I outright copied the 
 copyrights from
 the C code. It really doesn't make much sense IMHO to give the 
 bindings a
 different license from the original. At best, you might be able 
 to get away
 with marking them as Boost, but since you'd be using the 
 original library to
 do anything, you'd still be restricted by its license. But I'm 
 not a lawyer,
 so I don't know what all of the murky details are. It just 
 seemed simplest to
 me to copy the copyrights over.

 As for the opengl deimos project, I don't know what its license 
 is. It's
 probably listed in the copyright notices in the files.

 - Jonathan M Davis


Their are other opengl wrappers with various licenses, I am 
actually more concered with the libx11 license, I need to be able 
to statically link without surrendering my code to the lgpl 
license.

The original license of Xlib I am pretty sure is the x11 license, 
any idea who the maintainer of the libx11 deimos project is, such 
that I may query them, before I relagate myself to writting a new 
xlib wrapper?

I ask purely because I think their might be an error, not because 
I am arguing the merits of the license, I just wanna be sure all 
my ducks are in a row so to speak!
Aug 12 2013
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 8/12/2013 10:41 PM, luminousone wrote:

 The original license of Xlib I am pretty sure is the x11 license, any idea who
 the maintainer of the libx11 deimos project is,


The contributors to each commit are listed on github - you should be able to 
contact them.

The Deimos project files should be nothing more than the declarations necessary 
to connect D code to the library. I think it's been settled that a list of 
declarations is not copyrightable, as I recall Linux settled that.

Where you start getting into trouble is if you copy the comments and creative 
elements.
Aug 12 2013