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GNU FriBidi

GNU FriBidi is a free library implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm, used for right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew in projects like Pango, GTK and VLC. It is distributed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. GNU FriBidi may be redistributed and modified under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, or (at the user's option) any later version.[1]

  2. The licence text shipped with the library in the COPYING file is the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1 (February 1999).[2]

  3. The README states that commercial licensing options are available on request from the maintainers.[3]

  4. GNU FriBidi has no dependencies on other libraries and is used by projects including Pango (and through it GTK and GNOME), AbiWord, MPlayer and VLC.[4]

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References

  1. GitHub - fribidi/fribidi: GNU FriBidi · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. fribidi/COPYING · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. fribidi/README.md · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. fribidi/README.md · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
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