Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: License for the mersene twister implementation

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 09 May 2010 17:12:01 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Rubén Rodríguez Pérez schreef:
> >>> I've found that the file mt19937db.c included in the BerkeleyDB
> >>> package as distributed by Oracle, and written by you and Takuji
> >>> Nishimura, is licensed under the "Artistic license". This license
> >>> is listed as non-free by the Free Software Foundation[1], making
> >>> the package unsuitable for free GNU/Linux distributions [2].
> 
> I found similar files in blender, osiris and rpm. These files have a 
> license notice for the Artistic License. Relicensing them to GPL is
> not a problem for blender and rpm (both GPL), but osiris has its own 
> BSD-style license. I found that the majority of '*mt19937*' files in 
> gNewSense's source packages is BSD-style licensed, but I haven't
> checked if those implementations are interchangeable with the
> Artistic licensed version.

Is this library/set of libraries big enough that it could be a shared
package? all packages needing the mt* files get built against our one
shared package.
it looks like we are approaching a dozen packages, so its an option
worth considering.
kk

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