[Olsr-dev] [Olsr-commit] OLSR.org main repository branch, stable, updated. OLSRD_0_6_2-368-g4ab453c

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Perhaps olsrd/license.txt should note that nmealib is LGPL.

.hc

On May 11, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Ferry Huberts wrote:

> I asked Henning and he was OK with it
> 
> On 11-05-12 16:07, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> 
>>> - Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> commit 4ab453c1c0997a480190afeff369f3a5376cdec2
>>> Author: Ferry Huberts<(spam-protected)>
>>> Date:   Thu May 10 14:30:01 2012 +0200
>>> 
>>>    Makefile: build pud too on Linux
>>> 
>>>    The nmealib library is now included, so the
>>>    build is self-contained
>>> 
>>>    Signed-off-by: Ferry Huberts<(spam-protected)>
>>> 
>>> commit d481c35bc9a5d1e015182a60e0eb08df4c2a0e8d
>>> Author: Ferry Huberts<(spam-protected)>
>>> Date:   Thu May 10 21:34:07 2012 +0200
>>> 
>>>    PUD: add nmealib to build
>>> 
>>>    Signed-off-by: Ferry Huberts<(spam-protected)>
>>> 
>>> commit 38b06dc66b64901786acb270762464b22344ef93
>>> Author: Ferry Huberts<(spam-protected)>
>>> Date:   Thu May 10 11:47:45 2012 +0200
>>> 
>>>    PUD: include nmealib v0.6.7
>>> 
>>>    Signed-off-by: Ferry Huberts<(spam-protected)>
>> 
>> I generally am a fan of LGPL, but I feel I should point this out because it seems to go against the current state of the olsrd source tree:
>> 
>> Having the LGPL nmealib in the olsrd source and also including pud in "make build_all" violates the spirit of the license of the rest of the code in olsrd.  Everywhere else, it is a BSD-style license.  If someone downloads olsrd, looks at the olsrd/license.txt file, then runs "make build_all", they might think they have BSD-style licensed software, but that would not be true.
>> 
>> .hc
> 
> -- 
> Ferry Huberts