[License-review] For Approval: libpng license, version 2.0

Henrik Ingo henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi
Mon Nov 5 20:09:44 UTC 2018


On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 5:51 PM Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi>
wrote:

> I guess my first reaction is that libpng as a library is embedded into
> larger software applications, so there would be some value in ending up
> with a simpler and shorter alternative. So it would be worth looking into
> the alternatives you mentioned, such as moving the contributors to a
> separate flat list.
>
>
On a quick reread it seems the licence(s) require to keep the license
intact only for source distributions, and there's no such burden for
consuming applications distributed in binary form. In that case this is of
course not a major issue either way.

henrik


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