[reportlab-users] Svglib 0.6 to be released soon

[Roberto Alsina]

On Tuesday 23 September 2008 14:45:38 Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Dinu Gherman wrote:

> > Anybody who wants to use (and modify) svglib will be able to

> > do so, even after downloading it as an egg. For other, add-

> > itional, licenses you'll need to convince me with good argu-

> > ments.

>

> The main problem is that you cannot use it in commercial projects. Since

> this sort of technology is mostly useful to professional developers, that's

> a bummer. In the Zope world we have been really happy with the ZPL license

> and contributing back to the source code has never been an issue.


Said "professional developers" are free to contact Dinu and pay him for a 
license, are they not?

Sorry if this is uncalled for, but I am kinda bummed about people asking for 
more liberal license in a library so they can use it in a *less* liberally 
licensed app.

OTOH, there are ways around this GPLd library thing. Use IPC and keep it off-
process, for instance. The GPL doesn't apply to the produced PDF fragment.

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