Hi Andrew,
On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Andrew W. Steiner wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> A quick question about HDF5 and open source. In particular,
> I'm curious about compatibility with GPLv3. Generally,
> it seems that HDF5 is under NCSA's license has been verified to
> be compatible with the GPL as can be verified on fsf.org. There are
> also portions under LLNL's license, which is a simple permissive
> non-copyleft license and these sorts of things are also generally
> regards as compatible with the GPL.
> One possible concern is the compression libraries, as licensing
> and compression has been an issue for the FSF in the past.
> I presume that all of the HDF5 code for compression is still provided
> under NCSA's license, and thus no extra licensing issues are
> present, but I wanted to double-check this. Specifically, is there
> code for compression in the HDF5 source tree which is not
> provided under either the NCSA or LLNL license?
No, all the code we distribute is under the NCSA license (or the LLNL
one). The external libraries that HDF5 can use are distributed separately and
with their own license terms.
Quincey
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