GPL license violation? [GNU Scientific Library]

Ferdinando Ametrano qf@ametrano.net
Wed Dec 19 13:20:00 GMT 2001


At 10:20 AM 11/14/01 +0100, on the R-Quant mailing list 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smartquant/message/911) Anton Fokin wrote:
>we have GSL already included in R-Quant distribution.
>[omissis]
>I will update R-Quant GSL version to the newest one in the next release.

GSL uses the Gnu Public License (GPL). Therefore, if R-Quant includes GSL 
R-Quant should be GPL-ed too.
I might be missing some important point here, but I think R-Quant licence 
agreement (http://www.smartquant.com/license.html) is not GPL compatible.

Ferdinando Ametrano




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