I really appreciate the comments and suggestions I got in this mailing list.
I understand that the issue depends on the definition of an derivative work. It seems if the combination of a GPL-licensed and an EPL-licensed software in a distribution is permitted if the combination is not a derivative work but a separate work. Our GPLv3-licensed software is a mathematical programming language (CMPL) that generates a instance file of an linear program. After the generation of the instance file an EPL-licensed solver is executed directly using the command line interface. If there is an optimal solution our software reads a ASCII file that contains the solution. I interpret the licenses and your comments in the way that in this case there is no license violation if I bundle both binaries in one distribution. Thanks Mike Am 12.01.2012 um 19:02 schrieb Mike Milinkovich: > Mike, > > The answer, as always, is "it depends". Have you read [1] and [2]? They > capture the basic positions of both the FSF and the Eclipse Foundation. > However, they do focus primarily on the plug-in scenario. > > [1] http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/epl-gpl-commentary/ > [2] http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/using-the-gpl-for-eclipse-plug-ins > > > From: license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org > [mailto:license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org] On Behalf Of Mike Steglich > Sent: January-12-12 10:59 AM > To: license-discuss@opensource.org > Subject: [License-discuss] GPL and non-GPL binaries in one distribution > > Hi, > > Is it permitted to have a program licensed under GPLv3 and an EPL software in > one binary distribution? There is no share of source code ore use of a > library. The GPL binary executes the EPL binary as an external process (as a > command line tool). > > I interpret that as an aggregate: > A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, > which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are > not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a > storage or distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the compilation > and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights > of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. > Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to > apply to the other parts of the aggregate. > > Am I right or not? > > Thanks > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@opensource.org > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
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