One file is GPL, everything else is MIT?

[JeetKunDoug]

https://github.com/GameAnalytics/hyper/blob/master/c_src/hyper_carray.c#L5 claims the C implementation of hyper_carray as GPL, but the LICENSE file is MIT. Can you clarify which license this library falls under, and perhaps drop the GPL header from hyper_carray.c if the intent is for it to be MIT licenced? For the moment, we're dropping the hyper_carray backend from our fork before shipping HLL support in Riak (as we're currently using the hyper_binary backend anyway). We originally found this because we ran into issues compiling hyper_carray.c on Solaris, one of our target operating systems.

[elverkilde]

That's not good. The C implementation was originally a separate project which was merged in and the license was probably forgotten.

I guess the preferred solution is to change the license to MIT. We will need permission from all contributors AFAIK. My permission is hereby given.

Can you submit a separate PR with the Solaris fix? It would be great to have that in.

cc @johannesh @chrisavl @cmdevries

[binarytemple-external]

Just for the point of clarity - https://github.com/GameAnalytics/hyper/blob/master/c_src/hyper_carray.c#L5 - that line says LGPL. Not to diminish the importance of a consistent license, but worth mentioning that LGPL code will not contaminate an entire codebase in the same manner as GPL licensed code. This ticket should be renamed.

[complex64]

@elverkilde, go for the MIT for carray for this project 👍

[renjith-ga]

Merged the pull request from @elverkilde as the permission has been given by all three contributors @elverkilde @chrisavl and @johannesh to change license to MIT. Hence closing this issue.

[cmdevries]

LGTM