Re: modified BSD-4-clause and GPL

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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> * Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr:
>
>> Question here: is the license of mpfit compatible to GPL?
>
> Which GPL version?

2+

> Version 3 covers something like this in an explicit compatibility
> enhancement:
>
>     b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or
>     author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal
>     Notices displayed by works containing it; or

This is a bit different: the license does require preservation of an
existing notice, but adding an explicite acknowledgement somewhere else
(namely in the documentation or wherever usual acknowledgments are put).

> But you'll have to ask the licensor of the GPL code you're trying to
> link with.  Interpretations vary, and the license text goes only so
> far to avoid disputes.

This is complicated/impossible. The code links to other GPL code
(f.e. readline), and in priciple one would need to ask the whole chain
to get permission.

Ole

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