[ptx] Licencing problem between Hugin and Vigra

[Florent Bayle]

Hello,

As I said some times ago, there is currently a licencing problem between Hugin 
and Vigra : Hugin is released under "GPL", and vigra is licenced under "Vigra 
Artistic Licence", wich is not GPL-compatible (and not free).

I have discussed of this problem on Vigra mailing list, and Ullrich Koethe 
(the author of Vigra) said me [1] that the next release will be licenced 
under MIT X11 License, which is, according to the FSF [2], GPL-compatible. 
But this licence change doesn't seems to concern old versions of Vigra

So, my question is :
 - is it possible to compile hugin, using the official version of Vigra as an 
external library ?
 - when did you plan to make it possible if it isn't (I aknowledge the fact 
that you maybe want to release Hugin 0.5 before that) ?


I know that I'm maybe annoying you with this problem, but I'd very like to see 
this problem cleared to be able to make an official Debian package of Hugin.

Thanks.

[1] : 
http://kogs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pipermail/vigra/2005-November/000131.html
[2] : http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#X11License

-- 
Florent
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