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Sources and Documentation for the HINT project
http://hint.userweb.mwn.de/
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License statement is confusing #15

Closed hpreusse closed 10 months ago

hpreusse commented 1 year ago

The main page of that repository states that the license of the code is LGPL-2.1 license, although large parts of the code are MIT/X11. Would be nice if this could be fixed (if possible). Thanks!

ruckertm commented 10 months ago

Hi! I am not a license specialist. (Most of the time, I dont care). So please help me to understand the issue. The software under the external directory, of course, all has its own license statements. The software is just there for easy download and keeping the version fixed.

Then there are some .w files that have a simple license that I had copied there long time ago. Do you mean these files? The other files are often just generated files. So what is it that you think I should change? Best regards Martin

hpreusse commented 10 months ago

The header of the file main.c states "Copyright 2017-2021 Martin Ruckert, Hochschule Muenchen, Lothstrasse 64, 80336 Muenchen" and the license statement below is MIT/X11 license, see here. Hence the statement of the main page "LGPL-2.1" is confusion as most of the code is MIT license (except that Knuth stuff). Would be nice if the LICENSE file could be fixed. Thanks!

ruckertm commented 10 months ago

I have added the MIT/X11 license to the various source files and added an explanation to the README.md file. I hope this avoids the confusion. Thanks again for pointing me to this issue. If there are further improvements on the licensing issue, please let me know.