On 28/mag/08, at 20:17, Søren Hauberg wrote:

> ons, 28 05 2008 kl. 20:25 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber:
>> DESCRIPTION and contents.m say GPL2 or later, however the majority of
>> .m files in inst/ say LGPL2 or later.
>>
>> So, which one is it?
>> Bonus points if we can agree on just one license :)
>
> Hmmm, I don't know... The 'License' field in the DESCRIPTION file  
> is not
> mandatory. It's just there to give a quick license overview. We could
> change the text in DESCRIPTION to "GPL v2 or later, and LGPL v2 or
> later". We could also change the license of the LGPL m-files to GPL --
> how would it be possible for anybody to link to a script file  
> anyway? I
> don't think we should change LGPL C++ files to GPL, as that would go
> against the wishes of whoever released the code as LGPL.

To my understanding, if these C++ files link to liboctave linking to  
the binaries
produced from such files would mean linking to liboctave which is  
GPL, therefore
distributing them under LGPL doesn't make much sense anyway...

> Søren

c.


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