Re: [eigen] Eigen 2, expression templates, and tvmet

[Benoît Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 22:18:09 Tommi Rantala wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Benoît Jacob wrote:
> > Note that both TVMET and GMM++ are licensed under the LGPL. So I think
> > we're
>
> BTW, did you read the TVMET license carefully? It actually seems to be
> LGPL+addendum.

Nice catch, I hadn't read it but indeed I can see the addendum on the website.

Most of its clauses are benign because they do not place any additional 
restriction on redistribution. Clauses 1,2,3 actually restrict the possible 
redistribution restrictions, so they're our friends. Clause 0 is only a 
preamble. Clause 4 is just stating some common sense.

But there is one annoying clause, that is clause 5. This is a plain 
advertising clause.

However, I think that is not an issue because it is not said anywhere that the 
license addendum itself applies to derivative works. The LGPL applies 
recursively to derivative works, but AFAICS it is not said anywhere that the 
tvmet license addendum applies recursively too. In other words: clause 5 only 
forces _us_ to advertise tvmet (which I intended to do anyway, see TODO), but 
we don't need to force this advertising clause our own users. So I think 
there's no problem.

Cheers,
Benoit

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