On 13/10/2010 14:30, Nicolas JEAN wrote:
On 09/10/2010 17:59, Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
On Saturday 09 October 2010 13:40:57 Nicolas JEAN wrote:
On 07/10/2010 14:29, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html (FSF) http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.htm (OSI)
The image magick license is not referred to in both these lists…
ImageMagick is hosted at SourceForge. If it isn't Free Software by any definition they would be violating the terms of use @ Sourceforge.
Might be. The sourceforge project's page[1] indicates that imagemagick is licensed under the BSD license. According to a mailing list thread[2], the license was changed in 2003 from BSD to "the authoratitive ImageMagick license"[3]. And both source tarballs you can download on sf.net and imagemagick.org clearly state that the license is the ImageMagick license. I think it's because the project was registered in 2001 on sf.net that the project page still says BSD…
I never heard that it was proprietary, but I would really appreciate if someone found out.
I'm going to write to both sf.net to ask them to change license info, and imagemagick.org to ask them if they care about free software and/or being regarded as such. I'll keep you tuned!
I've talked with the ImageMagick guys. The discussion was somewhat surrealistic, because they did not (or did not want to) understand what the problems were with having a copy of the Apache2.0 license rather than linking to it. Sourceforge did not answer me.
I guess it's good to go with IM practically using the Apache2.0. I'm going to add the reader on PDFreaders.org. If anyone knows why http://view.samurajdata.se/ and Free Software should not wed, speak now or forever hold your peace.
Cheers, Nico