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Re: GPL licence
- From: Stephen Smoogen <smoogen at lanl dot gov>
- To: Harald Wiedemann <wiedemann dot harald at litef dot de>
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:19:08 -0700
- Subject: Re: GPL licence
- Organization: CCN-2 ESM/SSC
- References: <200311181508.01519.wiedemann.harald@litef.de>
I hate to say this, but it comes down to the perview of lawyers and
such. When I worked on a book that had GPL code in it, that company went
with the advice of their lawyer which was have a block of comment in the
snippets saying the code was GPL'd and then having the GPL as an
appendix in the book. A different lawyer might disagree or ammend that,
but that was done in that case.
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 07:08, Harald Wiedemann wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> as mentioned in a previous mail, I'm writing on a book on
> 'Numerical Physics' which includes programs using GSL.
> May be this is a good point to thank everybody for the
> help I appreciated from the list. All this programs will be
> licenced under the GPL.
> Now to my question: Is it sufficient to state in the text of
> the book, that the programs are under GPL or do I have to
> include a line in the source code like
> this program is licensed under GPL, ....
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Harald Wiedemann
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