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Re: Legal question to a file from Dr. Dobb's



On Tue, 31 May 2016 23:51:52 +0200
Jan Luca Naumann <j.naumann@fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I want to package the tool sedutil
> (https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil).
> 
> When writing the debian/copyright file I found a possible file that
> could be problematic to be used together with GPL-3 code:
> https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/blob/master/Common/log.h
> 
> Is this a file a problem or can it be used and distributed under the
> terms of GPL-3+?

It seems like it's a problem as it is a derivative work of Dr. Dobb's,
which just says "All rights reserved".


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