Bug#740463: libelmersolver-6.1.so links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

Francesco Poli invernomuto at paranoici.org
Sun Mar 2 09:16:28 UTC 2014


On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 23:13:00 +0100 Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:

[...]
> Since SCOTCH used to be LGPL-licensed (before switching to CeCILL-C!
> oh nooo!), I got in touch with the main author of SCOTCH
> (François Pellegrini) and tried to persuade him that SCOTCH should
> be re-licensed
[...]

Just to be clear: what I attempted to persuade François to do is to
(get the necessary paperwork to) re-license SCOTCH back under the GNU
LGPL v2.1 or, at least, to dual-license it under the GNU LGPL v2.1 or
the CeCILL-C v1.0 (at the recipient's choice).
 

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