On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:59:41 -0000, Aaron Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > One thing I'm wondering about though: This library has a custom > > License, which basically says: use this for whatever, but mention > > where it came from, and mention it if you've changed anything. Does > > anybody know if this is GPL compatible or not? If not, I'll send an > > email to the author with a request to make it compatible. > > I believe that we can satisfy the "mention where it came from" by leaving > the author's attribution on top of his source files. The "mention if > you've changed anything" should be fine with our ChangeLog if we put a > mention of the ChangeLog into the iniparser sources. > > The "advertising" clauses like the early BSD license had don't mix with > the GPL because they specify that you have to place the copyright not only > in the source code, but also appearing someplace in the program, the > documentation, the printed user's manual and the side of the box you sell > at the local computer store. At least, if you take the requirement to a > natural extreme.
Then we're probably in the clear. I've added the author of iniparser to our AUTHORS file (with the annotation that he's responsible for iniparser) and to the Licencse part of README. Ilja
