Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> skribis: > >> I think the licensing page on the website is pretty clear: >> http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt_License_and_Copyright >> >> From the page: >>> The NLopt library is under the GNU Lesser General Public License >>> (LGPL), and the copyrights are owned by a variety of authors. >> >> And: >>> The combination of all of this software is under the conjunction of the >>> license terms, and in particular they are limited by the most >>> restrictive of the licenses for the portions, which in this case is the >>> LGPL. (The other portions of NLopt are under LGPL-compatible, >>> less-restrictive licenses like the MIT license. So, if you remove the >>> LGPL portions, which are currently code by Ladislav Luksan, the >>> remainder reverts to a looser license.) > > Still, according to luksan/COPYRIGHT, “[s]ubroutines PBUN, PNEW, PVAR, > PSEN” are “for your personal use […] [n]ot for redistribution”. > > So my understanding is that we need to remove those four subroutines. > The rest in that directory is LGPLv2.1+. > > WDYT?
I agree to your understanding. A little later in the same file I found: "This library (with exception of PBUN, PNEW, PVAR, PSEN) is a free software". > I don’t see it at > <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines>. > Debian has a package: <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/nlopt>. > Could you check if they apply any patches? I haven't found any patches. So I dug a little deeper and attempted to remove them myself with a patch, but I haven't been able to find these subroutines. I ran the following commands on the root of the source directory: grep -i -r "pbun" . grep -i -r "pmin" . grep -i -r "psen" . grep -i -r "pvar" . And I haven't found the routines. So I think we're safe. That could also be why Debian doesn't have a patch for this either. > Besides, I suggest reusing the bits about Guile bindings from the patch > I sent. Shall I prepare a new patch? Kind regards, Roel Janssen
