Licensing question...

[Tom Browder]

It seems by my reading, that your product would also have to be released under the GPL.

And I wish we could get the GSL license changed to the LGPL!.

Tom Browder


-----Original Message-----
From: Herman Bruyninckx <Herman.Bruyninckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be>
To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com <gsl-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Date: Monday, June 05, 2000 3:23 PM
Subject: Licensing question...


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>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.)
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>--
>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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