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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    WMF reader class License
From:       Martin Koller <m.koller () surfeu ! at>
Date:       2005-02-09 9:17:20
Message-ID: 200502091017.20776.m.koller () surfeu ! at
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Hi all,

I've seen that the lib/kwmf/qwmf class is
Copyright ( C ) 1998 Stefan Taferner
and under GPL.

As I'm looking for a WMF importer for our commercial software, I asked Stefan 
Taferner, if it would be OK for him to change the license to LGPL

Here is our conversation:


Re: qwmf class License
From: Stefan Taferner <taferner@kde.org>
  To: Martin Koller <koller@etm.at>
Date: 07.Feb. 2005 19:07
   
On Monday 07 February 2005 17:38, you wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> I found your implementation of a WMF reader in the koffice sources.
> I'm looking for such a beast for our commercial software.
> It would be great to have a chance to spread the software more to Linux,
> but this requires to be able to also use WMFs :-( ...
>
> As your qwmf code is currently GPL, do you think you can change it to LGPL
> ?

Feel free to use it under LGPL.

However, I wrote it several years ago. It is quite likely that it is not
100% my code anymore, and I cannot speak for the other authors.

You can of course contact the koffice team, tell them that it is fine
for me, and ask if anybody else objects.

I am out of Kde business for some years, so its hard for me to just 
ask around.

Kind regards,
Stefan

-------------------

So is anybody of the rest of the authors objecting to change it to LGPL ?

BTW: I'm currently looking into this class and found some issues with the EMF 
format (and somewhere I found a "not implemented" comment).
I'm going to change that and will of course send you the patch.

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