Re: [Audacity-devel] "wxWidgets license"

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

On 12/29/2011 1:06 PM, Gale (Audacity Team) wrote:
> "Gale (Audacity Team)" wrote:
>> ImageManipulation.cpp was waiting for Dominic to confirm if the 
>> wxWidgets licence was acceptable, so I marked that and 
>> ImageManipulation.h as "provisionally" licensed under wxWidgets
>> for want of any further information. 
> 
> I asked Dominic and he said to post the following here:
> 
>    "I hereby release all code contributed by me, Dominic Mazzoni, in the
> source
>    files src/ImageManipulation.cpp and src/ImageManipulation.h, under both
> the
>    GPL v2 license as used by Audacity, and also under the wxWindows License
> /
>    wxWidgets License, as defined here:
>    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows.php "
> 
> If as per:
> http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/newlicen.htm
> 
> the wxWidgets Licence is still "pending approval", maybe our source files
> which 
> are currently under "wxWidgets license" should say "wxWindows License", or 
> dual license them as per Dominic? 

I vote dual license. Also, I finally reviewed the patch you offered to
change those headers. They're all James's code, I believe, so James,
please review that patch (re-attached here), and give thumbs up/down.


> 
> 
> 
> Gale 
> 
> 
> James wrote:
>> If those files are GPL v2 they can't migrate to wxWidgets.
>> --James.
>>
>>>
>>> On 07/06/2011 06:01, Vaughan Johnson wrote:
>>>> I notice there are places in the code that say "This file is licensed
>>>> under the wxWidgets license, see License.txt". But there's nothing
>> about
>>>> wxWidgets in LICENSE.txt. Isn't it more accurate to say GPL v2? Why
>>>> refer to wxWidgets there?
>>>>
>>>> Plus, we have a standard header
>>>> (http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CodingStandards#Header_comments)
>> that
>>>> should at least be used for all new files rather than making up new
>>>> varieties. :-)
>>>>
>>>> - Vaughan
> 
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