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shevek / lzo-java

Pure Java implementation of the liblzo2 LZO compression algorithm
http://www.anarres.org/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Regarding the license used in the current release 1.0.5 #9

Closed etman closed 7 years ago

etman commented 8 years ago

Hi, I've seen the lzo-core is released under Apache-2.0 license in the resulting maven POM file. However, the LICENSE file states the library is released under GNU GPL v3. So I would like to ask what license the current version(1.0.5) actually uses?

wesc commented 7 years ago

Clarification on this would be great. It's controversial, but according to the FSF (which maintains the copyright of the GPL text), any program that ships with lzop support using this library must be entirely GPL. Basically none of Hadoop is GPL, so this is problematic. I would assume that the license listed in this source repo is the truth since it's bundled with the code, and that the Maven POM is incorrect.

shevek commented 7 years ago

Yes, as this is based on the actual lzop code, it must be GPL. I will fix the POM file.

shevek commented 7 years ago

Will be fixed on next release.