License problem with JPGraph

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le vendredi 06 avril 2007 à 13:13 +0200, Gianluca Sforna a écrit :
> On 4/6/07, Aurelien Bompard <gauret at free.fr> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm the maintainer of JPGraph in Fedora (a php graphing library). I thought
> > its licence was QPL by reading this:
> > http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/jpdownload.php
> > but apparently I misread it and jpgraph is only Free for non-commercial use.
> > JPGraph used to be fully QPL a long time ago, but that changed.
> 
> Maybe we can package the older 1.52 as debian did?
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/libp/libphp-jpgraph/libphp-jpgraph_1.5.2-10.1/libphp-jpgraph.copyright

That's a very bad idea. Releasing a dead end means people will get angry
once they build stuff around it and realise it won't be updated ever
anymore.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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