Updated license statement about our legal view and future licenses.
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@ -171,16 +171,12 @@ In the particular case of libisofs there is no foreign copyright involved.
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As of 2010 foreign copyright is only in component libburn.
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We, the copyright holders, agree on the interpretation that dynamical linking
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of our libraries constitutes "use of" and not "derivation from" our work in
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the sense of GPL, provided those libraries are compiled from our unaltered
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code or from altered code published under GPL.
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So we will not raise legal protest if you link our libraries dynamically with
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applications which are not under GPL, or if you distribute our libraries
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and application tools in binary form, as long as you fulfill the usual
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condition of GPL to offer a copy of their source code -altered or unaltered-
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under GPL.
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We will not raise any legal protest to dynamic linking of our libraries
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with applications that are not under GPL, as long as they fulfill
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the condition of offering the library source code used, whether
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altered or unaltered, under the GPLv2+, along with the application.
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Nevertheless, the safest legal position is not to link libburn with
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non-GPL compatible programs.
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We ask you politely to use our work in open source spirit
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and with the due reference to the entire open source community.
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@ -194,9 +190,10 @@ It is the open source idea of responsible freedom which will be
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decisive and you will have to prove that you exhausted all own
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means to qualify for GPL.
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For now we are firmly committed to maintain one single license: GPL.
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We are firmly committed to allow GPLv2+ now and with future releases.
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Signed: Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt
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Agreement joined later by: Vreixo Formoso
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Public contact: <libburn-hackers@pykix.org>
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