[Bug 523877] Review Request: CBFlib - crystallography binary format library

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--- Comment #2 from Tim Fenn <fenn at stanford.edu>  2009-09-24 19:07:33 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> The licensing situation is a bit complicated.  Indeed, everything is GPLv2+,
> but some of it is also LGPLv2+.  That would give a license tag of "GPLv2+ and
> (GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+)" but you also need to indicate which parts of the code are
> under which license.  The documentation says that you can distribute the cbflib
> API under the LGPL, but honestly I'm not sure what they consider to be the API.
>  There's also some truly public domain code in there, though I doubt the
> compiled result preserves any of it uncombined with GPL code.
> 

I've notified upstream and received clarification (anything in the src/ folder
is LGPLv2+, everything else is GPLv2+), and asked later versions of the package
to differentiate this a bit better.

> There's also a potentially troubling notice in some code:
> 

I've also brought this up with upstream, hopefully they can provide information
as needed for the fedora legal folks if necessary.

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