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License compatibility #1

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Vudentz opened this issue Apr 25, 2022 · 1 comment
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License compatibility #1

Vudentz opened this issue Apr 25, 2022 · 1 comment

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@Vudentz
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Vudentz commented Apr 25, 2022

From the first look it seems the intention is to allow building with the likes of glibc but since it is LGPL 2.1 (https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LIB) I wonder if that would be compatible, at least some sources says they are not:

'One lax license, Apache 2.0, has patent clauses which are incompatible with GPL version 2;'
[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.html]

"The Apache 2.0’s license partner rights make it incompatible with GPL v2"
[https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/resources/blog/license-compatibility/]

I see that projects like https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow are also on the same license so I do wonder if there are taken care of the possible incompatibilities somehow, anyway we can use this very issue to explain to explains how to handle such problems.

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The Google position is:
"We do not believe that the LGPL and the Apache 2.0 license are incompatible."

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