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Re: [nebula-dev] Question about licences & packaging 
why not using batik?

Tom

Am 22.09.20 um 20:20 schrieb Jonah Graham:

Hi Laurent,

Improved SVG sounds great.
However GPL and Eclipse really do not get along well. Nothing in Eclipse can depend on a GPL piece of code. Have a look at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/faq.php#h.sfzscklic49g <https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/faq.php#h.sfzscklic49g>
For example, you couldn't add jFreeSVG to Orbit or to Nebula as a dependency.
Your best bet is to ask JFreeSVG to relicense or dual license. There are only 4 committers on record, with the vast majority (99%) being the project owner (https://github.com/jfree/jfreesvg/graphs/contributors <https://github.com/jfree/jfreesvg/graphs/contributors>). If he can license it EPL then you are good to go. 

I am not a lawyer - but I hope the above is helpful.

Jonah


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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com <http://www.kichwacoders.com>
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 13:33, Laurent Caron <laurent.caron@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:laurent.caron@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 

    Hi

    I'm currently working on bug 566 565 :
    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=566565
    <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=566565>

    The idea is to use the jFreeSVG library
    (https://github.com/jfree/jfreesvg
    <https://github.com/jfree/jfreesvg>) and embed a swing object with
    SWT/AWT Bridge.

    I've got some questions

    a) The library is not a plugin. Should we use it as a "simple"
    library ? Should we create a plugin with the source code ?

    b) This library is under GPLv3 licence. Is it ok if we use in Nebula ?

    c) I'm also experiment a weird idea : port jFreeSVG to SWT. In this
    case, what is the process ? Is there any licence problem ?

    Thank you for your answers.

    Cheers,

    Laurent
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