Dear Paul,

We are developers and packagers of GPL software that use EpsGraphics2D as a library. Our projects have been using EpsGraphics2D for some years under the GPL; however, we noticed that your website now requests payment for this software.

We appreciate that you release much of your software under the GPL and that you also offer a commercial license option for use in proprietary software. We would like to discuss the current licensing arrangement of EpsGraphics2D.

Our programs currently use EpsGraphics2D version 0.9.0 that we have obtained under the GPL and we are permitted to distribute that version and any modifications we make to it under the GPL as part of our programs. However, we find it to be an unsatisfactory situation for us all that this code has no free "home" any more and we are concerned that it will fragment or bitrot over time.

We are contacting you now because we want to address this situation. We see that we have two options available to us:

 * We all work together to continue development and packaging of EpsGraphics2D under the GPL using a publically available source code repository.

 * We create a GPL fork of your GPL version of EpsGraphics2D that we already have in our posession. While, under the GPL, we are entitled to do this, we would obviously rather not do so.

Since we prefer the first solution, we invite you to work with us on this.

Please let us know your thoughts about how EpsGraphics2D should proceed under the GPL.

Kind regards

Arnaud Blouin
Ziga Mahkovec
Jörg Sommer
Stuart Prescott