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Re: [nebula-dev] Question about licences & packaging
Hi Jonah

Thank you for your answer. I had many doubts about the compatibility of EPL & GPL, and you gave me a good direction.

For the moment I just experiment some code, but I can contact the author for a dual licence (I cross my fingers).

Have a nice day,

Laurent

Le mar. 22 sept. 2020 à 20:22, Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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 

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). 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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On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 13:33, Laurent Caron <laurent.caron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi

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

The idea is to use the jFreeSVG library (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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