Re: Trilinos licensing
What about interoperability of Apache2 with LGPL2.1?
I was also a little worried about the "public domain" disclaimer.
After all, "public domain is not a license and the copyright holder
may choose to retract the software from PD at any moment"
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6225>.
The "Bison exception" struck me as weird as well; I'd never come
across anything like it.
--Nico
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 08:59:06PM +0100, Nico Schlömer wrote:
>> > Both of those licenses sound great and compatable. Provided it's not
>> > BSD-4.
>>
>> It's 3-clause, so we're good.
>
> Great :)
>
>> > https://www.debian.org/social_contract
>> >
>> > contains the DFSG, our guidelines for free software works that are fit
>> > for Debian's main archive section.
>>
>> I checked all licenses on <http://trilinos.org/?page_id=143> and
>> besides the BSD-3 clause and the LGPL 2.1, they appear to be either
>> one of
>>
>> * MIT
>
> Provided this is MIT/Expat and not MIT/XFree86, which contains the 4th
> clause of the BSD-4 (so-called "advertising clause", which is GPL
> incompatable)
>
>> * BSD 2-clause
>> * Apache 2.0
>> * GPL3 with Bison exception
>> * "Public domain" (not a license)
>
> These look good. Apache2 is compatable with GPLv3+, but not v2 (due to
> patent termination and indemnification provisions)
>
>
> These are all free software licenses (except for PD, which should be
> fine), and the resulting work looks to be freely licensed GPLv3+
>
>> with copyright from various institutions. Can you say anything about
>> their interoperability and Debian compatibility of those licenses?
>
> It appears that this would be a freely licensed work with compatable
> licenses. I'd need to take a closer look to be sure, but it looks great
> if that's a full and complete listing of licensing terms.
>
>> Cheers,
>> Nico
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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