Got it.  OK, thanks, Tom.

Bill

On Jun 19, 11:22 am, Thomas Breuel <[email protected]> wrote:
> OCRopus is distributed under Apache 2, and there is nothing putative about
> it.
>
> If you link OCRopus with libgsl, then the resulting binary can only be
> distributed and used under the GPLv3, and that my impose restrictions on you
> how you can redistribute OCRopus source code.  Since we don't distribute
> binaries, that doesn't affect us and doesn't affect the license under which
> you receive OCRopus source code from us.  (Of course, IANAL.)
>
> In any case, libgsl is not essential for OCRopus and we'll probably remove
> the dependency soon anyway.
>
> Tom
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 18:52, Bill Janssen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Building ocropus-0.4 yesterday, I notice that it fails if "gsl" is not
> > available.  I presume that this is the GNU Scientific Library, which
> > is licensed under GPLv3.  Does this make ocropus also GPLv3, despite
> > the putative Apache license?
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