Re: Can we distribute non-GPLed code with Lush?

Indeed everything seems to be legit even according to members of
debian-legal. For more information see

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/01/msg00026.html

NB. I am yet to follow up on their kind reply.

Cheers
Yarik

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

> AINAL but: libsvm is under BSD License which is GPL compatible, thus its
> code can be introduced into GPL-license software. also dislike GPL, BSD
> license doesn't require modified files to list explicitly who modified
> them and summary of what was modified. So from that perspective lush is
> is in good standing.

> As for lush copyright header: again, I can be completely wrong, but
> having that doesn't violate any clause of BSD License which simply
> requires to "retain the above copyright notice, this list of
> conditions and the following disclaimer.", which is fulfilled.
> I guess, the purpose of lush's copyright header is to state that
> custom modifications are under GPL, but indeed it could be made more
> obvious.

> On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, Ralf Juengling wrote:
> > Lush is distributed under the GPL. Are there any provisions that ban
> > distributing non-GPL'ed code along with it? For instance, I see that
> > Lush includes a modified copy of libsvm.

> > Btw, I find it problematic to simply put the standard Lush copyright
> > header into svm.cpp--what does it mean?

> > Ralf





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