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9:31:25
jackdaniel
c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you
9:31:53
jackdaniel
there is also paragraph about aggregation, but this is not an aggregation since we use the code as part of McCLIM (not package it)
9:35:52
loke
it could be argued that we don't trechnically use it, it's used by applications in order to be able to draw bidi text
9:36:53
jackdaniel
if you package bidi as a separate library, then we wouldn't be a subject of this license implication
9:37:41
jackdaniel
also, even if such interpretation would be defendable, that would be impolite towards the original author who (we need to assume that) were competent and knew what he were doing licensing his work
9:59:16
loke
Nothing has been decided yet. Also, it's not certain if I'll go to Paris, Beirut or both.
10:01:24
loke
beach: Oh, that kind of explains all the incredibly odd questions he's asked on c.l.l :-)
10:04:42
beach
He includes a wide spectrum from theoretical results through thorough experimentation, to implementation.
10:43:58
jackdaniel
http://ix.io/1oQ7 - this is how font-text-extents should behave. is this description complete and universal?
10:44:36
jackdaniel
I hope it will be useful also for vertically-oriented fonts and bidirectional text, so other layers of clim doesn't have to take care of it
10:58:58
jackdaniel
http://ix.io/1oQc (slightly modified version, bbox order modified, top argument added)
11:00:43
jackdaniel
top argument is necessary for completness (imagine vertical text starting from the bottom, then -ascent doesn't give us information necessary for the bounting box)