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- Subject: Re: [eigen] MPL2 relicensing: tracking 3rd-party code
- From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:56:53 -0400
- Cc: Daniel Berlin <dannyb@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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
>
>