Re: [AGG] AGG on Debian and Ubuntu

[John H. <jo...@gl...>]

I propose to simply replace the GPL'd AGG 2.5 on Debian with AGG 2.4,
including its liberal license. Giving it a Debian-specific version of 2.5.4
is just to get the Debian tools to accept that this is an upgrade to AGG
2.5. There will be no changes to the AGG 2.4 license. Downstream users of
libagg should have no issue with the license becoming more relaxed.

Libagg on Debian already has a patch that uses std::numeric_limits<>, so I
am not adding anything new. I should have realized that before.

-- john

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:00 AM Jim Barry via Vector-agg-general <
vec...@li...> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> AGG historically avoided using the C++ standard library, though there is
> no real reason why that should continue.
>
> Don't forget that AGG 2.4 has a permissive licence, incompatible with the
> GPL. I find such licensing issues quite hard to comprehend, but I suppose
> this means that significant contributors to AGG 2.4 must consent to their
> code being included in the GPL'd AGG 2.5? I certainly have no objection to
> that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Jim
>
>
> On 11 June 2017 at 17:39, John Horigan <jo...@gl...> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jerry. I avoided std::numeric_limits<> because I thought that it was a
>> C++11 feature. But I checked and it isn't. I will create new patches
>> replacing the macros with std:: namespace constants.
>>
>> -- john
>>
>
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