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Re: Trilinos licensing



On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 05:38:47PM +0100, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> Unfortunately, Trilinos' licensing is not exactly straightforward.

Alas; this happens.

> Most of it is BSD-licensed, part of if LGPL, with some contributions
> of other licenses mixed in;

Both of those licenses sound great and compatable. Provided it's not
BSD-4.

> more details on
> <http://trilinos.org/?page_id=143>. I've contacted Trilinos about what
> parts of Trilinos are concerned by those other licenses.
> 
> What's you guys' opinion here, specifically when it comes to
> compatibility with Debian? (I could disable certain subpackages if the
> licensing does not concur with Debian's policies.)

https://www.debian.org/social_contract

contains the DFSG, our guidelines for free software works that are fit
for Debian's main archive section.

Licenses must be compatable with each other or the resulting work isn't
distributable.

> Cheers,
> Nico

Cheers,
  Paul

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