Hi Andrea, On 07/23/2018 03:32 PM, Andrea Trentini wrote: > Hi, > I'm one of the mentors of GSoC project BootTorrent (https://github.com/shreyanshk/boottorrent), > since we would like to pack 'opentracker' (https://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/) into > BootTorrent but they differ in license (GPL vs. beerware) we'd like to receive advice about the > compatibility of the two licenses: can a beerware product be included[1] into a GPLed product? > I believe so but I'm not sure. According to the Wikipedia article about the beerware license [0], it is compatible with the GPL (and even DFSG compatible, although there is no reference for this). I think the problem would rather be that packaging another project into your project would be considered an embedded code copy [1], so like Daniele already mentioned, it would be better to package the opentracker in a seperate package cheers, Birger [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware [1] https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies > > Thank you > > [1] beware that it would just be a simple packing - as in a distro - there is no direct link from > BootTorrent, it's simply to avoid users from downloading and compiling opentracker separately, > BootTorrent launches an available tracker and opentracker happens to be the smallest and easiest to > compile we've found. >
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