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- To: Daniel Berlin <dannyb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [eigen] MPL2 relicensing: tracking 3rd-party code
- From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:26:36 -0400
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Thanks Daniel.
So, based on this, do you think that the MINPACK code should be left
out of the EIGEN_MPL2_ONLY set? Or is it OK to ship MINPACK code in
the MPL2-licensed Eigen?
Benoit
2012/7/13 Daniel Berlin <dannyb@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> So, #3 is not the advertising clause, the advertising clause was "3.
> All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
> must display the following acknowledgement:
> This product includes software developed by the University of
> California, Berkeley and its contributors.
> "
>
> However, the clause cited is a little more complicated.
> The GPL *requires* interactive displays to show acknowledgements and
> appropriate legal notices, and the cited clause says
>
> "Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software
> itself, if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments
> normally appear."
>
> So, at a glance (and this is not a final answer), i'd say they are
> compatible, because there is no situation in which further
> restrictions are placed on you beyond the GPL's requirements around
> attribution anyway.
> (IE you can always be validly complying with both licenses at once).
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ok, thanks for the insight.
>>
>> So do we need to have both a EIGEN_MPL2_ONLY and a EIGEN_GPL_COMPATIBLE_ONLY?
>>
>> +CC Daniel
>>
>> Benoit
>>
>> 2012/7/13 Cyrille Berger Skott <cberger@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It is very likely that the minpack license is acceptable for MPL, but I think
>>> it is not compatible with GPL.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cyrille Berger Skott
>>>
>>>