CUPS Arabic support ?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Jun 7 10:34:25 PDT 2004


Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
> 
> 
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
>> Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
>>
>>> ok, what about LGPL ?
>>> you can do whatever you want with it.
>>
>> Not exactly.  There is an implied requirement that in order to
>> comply with the LGPL you need to link dynamically to the library
>> or provide source.  Also, you can't re-license the code under
>> different terms, which is a requirement for us for any core code
>> that we use - the licensee might be shipping on an embedded
>> platform where source and shared libaries are simply not possible.
> 
> 
> Ok, so we will continue with miniBidi (MIT licensed) and the current
> patch will be tested and debugged after some work on miniBidi to make
> it compliant with Explicit Directional marks.
> 
> I appologize for the late dissappearance, I will resume working on
> miniBidi and the patch in 2 weeks, it'll probably take me about 1 week
> to get everything finished. i hope this fits within your release
> schedule and we wont have to wait for the next release.

That's fine, since the changes are going into CUPS 1.2, not 1.1.x,
and we haven't started the 1.2.x betas yet.

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