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Appendix E Open Source Licences
Media Server User’s Guide
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This Product includes wxWidgets software under below license
Licence
Background
wxWidgets is currently licensed under the "wxWindows Licence" pending approval of the
"wxWidgets Licence" which will be identical apart from the name.
The wxWindows Licence is essentially the L-GPL (Library General Public Licence), with an exception
stating that derived works in binary form may be distributed on the user's own terms. This is a
solution that satisfies those who wish to produce GPL'ed software using wxWidgets, and also those
producing proprietary software.
Participants in the discussion that led to this decision include the folk from Abisource, Robert
Roebling, Julian Smart, Markus Fleck, Karsten Ballueder, and some advice from Richard Stallman.
Richard has confirmed that the new licence is compatible with GPL'ed applications. However, there
are no significant restrictions on proprietary applications.
The wxWindows Licence has been approved by the Open Source Initiative, and you can find the
licence on their site here.
In August 2005, an ambiguity in Clause 2 was removed (replaced "the user's" with "your") and the
version bumped to 3.1.
The wxWindows Library Licence
Copyright (c) 1998 Julian Smart, Robert Roebling [, ...]
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this licence document, but changing it is not allowed.
WXWINDOWS LIBRARY LICENCE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Library General Public Licence as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the Licence, or (at
your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library