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FRosner / DataGenerator

Tool for generating various test data for machine learning and data mining algorithms.
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Check licenses of packaged libraries #139

Closed FRosner closed 11 years ago

FRosner commented 11 years ago

I noticed that there are recursive dependencies like jfreechart-1.0.13. I must check that none of them are incompatible with my license. I'm not sure whether I need all of them anyway.

Husterknupp commented 11 years ago

Created a wiki page with a detailed accordance check.

Husterknupp commented 11 years ago

@FRosner I am considering some verses in §§2 and 3 of the LGPL and have two issues:

  1. It is said there, that we have to highlight every case, where we use header code from the LGPL libraries is not only by passing arguments but by actually modifying the code itself. Is that the case with code from jfreechart and jcommon? Using the methods with passed arguments is nearly free to use.
  2. I probably misled you in our last conversation about LGPL. I now understood, that we have to leave every library that is under the LGPL free to modify for the end user. But in contrast to the GPL we are not forced to open our own source code. Is this a problem?
FRosner commented 11 years ago

Please create a wiki page with all packaged libraries and their licenses. Distinguish between direct dependencies and transitive ones.

  1. I am not sure whether I get your point. I think that the libraries are just used by libraries we use.
  2. As we open the source code and do not modify the libraries I guess there should be no problem. Maybe we can talk to a lawyer. Do you know someone?