Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a quick hint. lush project ships sources of modified > version of libsvm which is released under BSD license. Since lush is > GPLed, and they heavily modified those libsvm sources, they added a > generic copyright + GPL excerpt on top above original BSD license. > Please see > http://pastebin.com/d7d42ea06 > for an example.
(Thanks to Francesco for posting the entire text in this thread. Yaroslav, it's helpful to have the license text directly in the same thread as the discussion.) > Although no clause of BSD license seems to be violated, I still have > some unpleasant aftertaste. Am I right that technically it is ok? It seems technically fine, and clearly DFSG-free, to me. What is the unpleasant aftertaste you have? Re-licensing BSD-licensed works is a touted by proponents of that license as a feature. > or may be file needs cleaner header which would state explicitly > that only modifications since original version LIBSVM-2.5 are under > GPL and copyrighted by lush authors? The GPL, section 2a, requires (effectively) a changelog be maintained for the software. Does that satisfy the above concern? -- \ "The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the | `\ spirit of society and leads to its intellectual | _o__) impoverishment." —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
