Aha! I was never happier to be wrong. :-) Woohoo! Thanks for the clarification.
FWIW, I said that you guys have LGPL-2.1 code, so technically it's still correct ;-). But I blame Fortran for this oversight. -- Pavan On Sep 6, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: > On Sep 6, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Pavan Balaji <bal...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > >> The mpich-3.0.x series was released with hwloc-1.6.x. One our of partners >> just brought it to our attention that this version of hwloc has LGPL-2.1 >> code in src/libltdl. > > Because GPL violations are quite serious, I want to be totally clear: ***your > statement is totally incorrect***. > > libltdl distributed in hwloc is not LGPL. > > I cite the comments in src/libltdl/ltdl.h: > > ----- > As a special exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License, > if you distribute this file as part of a program or library that > is built using GNU Libtool, you may include this file under the > same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program. > ----- > > This special exception is included in every single file under src/libltdl > except README and COPYING.LIB. > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > -- Pavan Balaji http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji
