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- Subject: Re: [eigen] MPL2 relicensing: tracking 3rd-party code
- From: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:37:33 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Cyrille Berger Skott
<cberger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 30 Jun 2012, Benoit Jacob wrote:
> > Following links, I arrived at this license file for MINPACK:
> > http://www.netlib.org/minpack/disclaimer
> >
> > Can anyone tell if this license is acceptable? From a quick glance, it
> > looks like a BSD-ish license.
>
> The problem is clause 3, it looks very much like an advertisement clause which
> are not GPL-compatible, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-
> list.html#OriginalBSD.
No it is not a advertisment clause, and it is compatible with gpl
clause 2 say approximatively the same:
- print that the software is copyrighted under gpl2 if interactive
> It is very likely that the minpack license is acceptable for MPL, but I think
> it is not compatible with GPL.
No it is compatible and documentation could be only a LICENSE FILE.
Clause 4 and 5 are only governement limatation of warranty
Bastien
>
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> Cyrille Berger Skott
>
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