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- To: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [eigen] Eigen 3.1.1 and LGPL components
- From: Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:16:37 +0200
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Hi,
it's "LGPL2.1, or (at your option) any later version". So, it's LGPL3 too.
gael
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gael, do you confirm that the LGPL 3rdparty code used by the Sparse
> solvers is LGPL2.1, not LGPL3?
>
> Benoit
>
> 2012/8/28 Clifford Yapp <cliffyapp@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the heads up.
>>>
>>> Any remaining LGPL code in the Eigen tree is third-party code whose
>>> licensing is not decided by us.
>>>
>>> So the presence of the LGPL3 text only in the top-level directory is
>>> only a remnant from the pre-MPL2 days, as you guessed.
>>>
>>> This will be corrected shortly by adding a copy of the LGPL 2.1.
>>
>> Excellent - thank you! Eigen's sparse matrix and sparse solver
>> functionality looks to be quite useful for the problem I'm working on
>> at the moment, so that's great news!
>>
>> CY
>>
>>