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.
> 
> Søren
> 
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Alois still contributes on the octave mailing lists, so why not just let
him respond and maybe clarify the license.

D.

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