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Bug 758217 - Relicense to LGPLv2.1+
Relicense to LGPLv2.1+
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gspell
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gspell maintainers
gspell maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-11-17 09:11 UTC by Sébastien Wilmet
Modified: 2015-12-10 19:46 UTC
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Description Sébastien Wilmet 2015-11-17 09:11:28 UTC 
The gedit developers already agree to relicense the code to LGPLv2.1+. The gspell code comes from gedit, but GspellInlineCheckerGtv initially comes from GtkSpell (version 2.0.2), and GtkSpell was and is still licensed under the GPL.

For GtkSpell 2.0.2, the copyright is:

> Copyright 2002 - Evan Martin
Comment 1 Sébastien Wilmet 2015-11-18 10:55:09 UTC 
Also, currently gspell-language.c is partly based on code taken from Epiphany, with the following copyright:

> Copyright 2003, 2004 - Christian Persch

But it is planned to remove the dependency to the libxml (see bug #757848), and use e.g. the code from GtkHtml, which is LGPLv2+:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkhtml/tree/components/editor/gtkhtml-spell-language.c