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Confusing license information #205

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Ceylo opened this issue Aug 16, 2020 · 2 comments
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Confusing license information #205

Ceylo opened this issue Aug 16, 2020 · 2 comments

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Ceylo commented Aug 16, 2020

According to https://github.com/GEOSwift/geos/blob/master/LICENSE geos is under GPL, not under LGPL.
More specifically, this makes GEOSwift GPL too, it cannot be MIT Licensed.

And this is contradictory with what's written in https://github.com/GEOSwift/GEOSwift/blob/master/README.md:

GEOS is licensed under LGPL 2.1 and its compatibility with static linking is at least controversial. Use of geos without dynamic linking is discouraged.

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Ceylo commented Aug 16, 2020

Ok my bad I just read

The build configurations provided in this repo are licensed under the GPL 2.0. See LICENSE for full details.
The contents of the Sources directory are taken from the GEOS project which is licensed under the LGPL 2.1. See Sources/COPYING for full details.

in https://github.com/GEOSwift/geos/blob/master/README.md

This is confusing and I think you should update the license file to tell about the different parts. Right now the most obvious source of license info says GPL and GitHub says so too.

@macdrevx macdrevx changed the title Incorrect license information Confusing license information Sep 3, 2020
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macdrevx commented Sep 3, 2020

Thanks for the suggestion @Ceylo

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