To be sure, we've no problem including the GPL code. It's rebadging it as BSD code which is the problem.
Drew On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 14:25 -0700, Xiaoye S. Li wrote: > The simplest solution is this, whatever is not BSD, you can remove > the use path, not to include in your release. Removing those do not > prevent from using SuperLU itself; those add-ons are secondary > functionalities. > > Sherry Li > > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Drew Parsons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear Dr Li, > > > > thank you for maintaining the SuperLU code. We're preparing to > > update > > to the latest version in the Debian GNU/Linux project. > > > > We noticed some licence changes in v5.2.1 and wanted to draw your > > attention to some discrepancies which have concerned us. > > > > The licence for your own SuperLU code is BSD. But a handful of > > files > > in the SuperLU package come from other sources, with their own > > licences. In v5.2.1 you've prepended the BSD licence, which seems > > to > > introduce contradictions with the original authors' licences. > > > > I've attached our tally of the various licences. > > > > In some cases the licence is compatible. The copyrights of the > > Xerox > > Corporation have a simpler licence, and there is a close > > relationship > > between them and your lab. > > > > In other cases the licence is more or less compatible, e.g. > > SRC/colamd.*, but the University of Florida's copyright still > > remains > > and isn't superseded by Berkeley's BSD. > > > > But the University of Minnesota's ITSOL code in EXAMPLE/*fgmr.c has > > a > > GPL licence which simply cannot be converted to BSD. In that case > > the > > prepended BSD notice is a contradiction. > > > > With MATLAB/time.m, you've removed the Mathworks copyright > > statement > > but the code is the same. Has Mathworks released the sample code > > as > > public domain? > > > > Could I ask you to audit the code licences in SuperLU? You've > > added > > the MC64 licence notice to License.txt, perhaps the others could be > > listed there too (removing their prepended BSD notices). > > > > Thank you kindly. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Drew Parsons > > Debian Developer > > >
