From: Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
To: Herman Bruyninckx <Herman.Bruyninckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Licensing question...
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 11:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14653.18812.881413.57961@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <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
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-06 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-05 13:20 Herman Bruyninckx
2000-06-06 11:59 ` Brian Gough [this message]
2000-06-06 9:26 Tom Browder
2000-06-08 11:59 ` Mark Galassi
2009-06-13 18:40 Rhys Ulerich
2009-06-15 10:30 ` Brian Gough
2009-06-15 14:53 ` Rhys Ulerich
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