Opened 12 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#2273 closed defect (fixed)
Replace kbool with a truly free library
| Reported by: | volter | Owned by: | dburken |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | OSSIM 2.0 |
| Component: | Algorithms/Functionality | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | legal license gpl library |
| Cc: |
Description
Please replace kbool with truly free software. The website of the developer says:
"Notice kbool is GPL licensed, commercial use not allowed, see main page fro more info."
Aside from that being contradictive, the author states in detail:
"The code is written by Klaas Holwerda, it is free to use for non commercial open source projects licensed as GPL. If you need a commercial license, contact me.- mail me ."
I therefore think there is no other solution than to replace it. Even if your bundled version is under a different license, you should not keep it. Most Linux distributions follow the rule of not bundling third party libraries in packages. They therefore need to un-bundle them and create additional packages.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 11 years ago
comment:2 by , 11 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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comment:3 by , 11 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
The code is now removed and replace with the use of lingoes
This ticket is a blocker to including ossim into Fedora/EPEL/ELGIS, consequently blocking or complicating the inclusion of Opticks and Orfeo Toolbox.