Re: License Question

Mark Wielaard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.debugging.valgrind
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 01:06:39PM -0500, Rayce West wrote:
> After researching GGPL some, I'm wondering how it's possible that angr (and
> pyvex) are allowed to use BSD licenses when they integrate VEX as their
> lifter and IR, especially since it's the General and not the Lesser?

It is fine to combine code under a lax-permissive license like the BSD
and code under the GPL, like valgrind. As long as the licenses don't
conflict and the program as a whole is distributed under the GPL. See
GPLv2, section 2 (b).

Cheers,

Mark
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