Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-legal-discuss-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 51673 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2009 11:36:40 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 7 Aug 2009 11:36:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 90042 invoked by uid 500); 7 Aug 2009 11:36:46 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-legal-discuss-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 89722 invoked by uid 500); 7 Aug 2009 11:36:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact legal-discuss-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: Reply-To: legal-discuss@apache.org List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list legal-discuss@apache.org Received: (qmail 89714 invoked by uid 99); 7 Aug 2009 11:36:45 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:36:45 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.2 required=10.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of bramez@gmail.com designates 209.85.219.228 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.219.228] (HELO mail-ew0-f228.google.com) (209.85.219.228) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:36:36 +0000 Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so1593558ewy.17 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:36:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=b+Yf399Kx5Zc+NDDpATrxqPj4eZiDBCFr+kIhzF+FOg=; b=v7Pt6j++jjuD/uoZCowwJ1Q9dYtC91mpa4fIgor3VgbjtVTlus+nfcUjwZ4RZUDZgs NlnQ1vMEku+5cI/7JwBdhMn8iiZtkSUvo3husxVnymvEymbqj+UFgnSz9eKb9m+4jBnG /uAKtVB0zqkpKgTNRo2cHzrjnT/x7VL+HT+b0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=g8wBFCk3xcb9tS0KmyifhXRSZdpmt6i44Wq7Q43Jqtj5+ZdXbAqpwkU48jymWdpq6i zZHd041Q7Je6AYlH1vF2/ZxDL+WtNkYrl92/VFSmLDYMSJPMUNYa9iC7zrYU0eSDEtzZ P0ojZ6X7ghrqoKFegUqoyP+n5W1ylrHhDMQZw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.49.194 with SMTP id x44mr203400web.130.1249644975597; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:36:15 +0200 Message-ID: <37a986e20908070436v430bf62ao5dc58750afa0ae78@mail.gmail.com> Subject: rewrite of GPL'd C code to java, compatible with Apache Licence? From: Bram Stieperaere To: legal-discuss@apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016367f9b14dda95304708ba473 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org --0016367f9b14dda95304708ba473 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am porting a vectorization library (potrace) from C to java (potrace4j, working title) . the C code is GPL. - Can I release the java version under an Apache Licence? A small part of the java code is quite different, because of language feature differences (IO/exceptions/memory mgmt/build in data structures ..), but the core graphical algorithms are simply copied (including comments) from the c code. - Also, I think It would be a nice extension to Batik SVG library. Can I (legally) donate the potrace4j code to Apache batik project? Bram --0016367f9b14dda95304708ba473 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi,

I am porting a vectorization library (potrace) from C to java (p= otrace4j, working title) . the C code is GPL.

- Can I release the j= ava version under an Apache Licence? A small part of the java code is quite= different, because of language feature differences (IO/exceptions/memory m= gmt/build in data structures ..), but the core graphical algorithms are sim= ply copied (including comments) from the c code.

-=A0 Also, I think It would be a nice extension to Batik SVG library. C= an I (legally) donate the potrace4j code to Apache batik project?

B= ram



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