[Nix-dev] Licensing

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Sat Apr 10 18:57:12 CEST 2010


Excerpts from maggesi's message of Sat Apr 10 18:37:30 +0200 2010:
> Hi,
> 
> the licensing condition of dmtcp says that dmtcp is LGPL3 but then adds:
> 
> "As a special exception, the copyright holders contribute the two files
> dmtcp/src/dmtcpaware.c and dmtcp/src/dmtcpaware.h to the public domain and
> grant permission for these two files to be redistributed or changed under
> any license."

I'd put LGPL3 into the field because you may give those files this
license.

I'd also put a comment telling about the public domain properties of
those two files.

Marc Weber



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