On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Michael A. K. Gross
<mgr...@sofia.usra.edu>wrote:
> ...
Norman Vine wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 20, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Tim Moore wrote:
> >
> > Actually it is the wrapper magvar.XXX that is GPL'd coremag.XXX is LGPLd
> >
> > IIRC magvar.XXX use to live in FlightGear hence its license and was
> > brought into
> > SimGear later. Magvar is a simple wrapper program that could easily be
> > rewritten
> > and or its licensed changed. Curt if IIRC this is one of those that I
> > submitted
> > with your copyright on as I used to do to keep licensing issues simple
> >
> > In any case no need to contact Ed as his code is LPGL already.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Norman
>
> I do need to modify coremag to accomplish our goals, so I don't think LGPL
>
Do you mean magvar there?
> will cover it. The file itself claims GPLv2, and it's not good enough
> anyway for NASA bean counters for other authors to claim that's an error
> without correcting it.
>
> My massive history at http://gitorious.org/fg/simgear shows that in this
commit:
commit 82459a2802a939434f9fc5b88d2b2aea58f0043d
Author: curt <curt>
Date: Sat Jul 8 19:16:10 2000 +0000
Converted to the LGPL licencing terms.
The licensing terms on magvar.cxx were changed from LGPL to GPL! Given the
comment in the commit, I suspect that that was a mistake. Curt can confirm
that and change the license back.
Tim
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