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Re: Licensing question...
- To: Herman Bruyninckx <Herman dot Bruyninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
- Subject: Re: Licensing question...
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 19:57:00 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006052217300.30936-100000@pc25-213.mech.kuleuven.ac.be>
In short, the LGPL is not compatible with the GPL.
The GPL is the intended license for programs or libraries that use
GSL. For motivation see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
Maybe your library can use the GPL too.
Herman Bruyninckx writes:
>
> I am planning to do some open source programming, in which I want to use
> GSL. My questions is this: since GSL is released under the GPL (and not the
> LGPL), does this mean that I _have_ to release my code also under GPL, or
> can it be LGPL? (Or some other Open Source license?)
> (My work will be a library, which uses GSL routines, but is not an
> extension (`derived work') of GSL itself.)
>
> --
> Herman.Bruyninckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be (Ph.D.) Fax: +32-(0)16-32 29 87
> Dept. Mechanical Eng., Div. PMA, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
>
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