[libvoikko] Sámi/HFST , anything new?

Harri Pitkänen hatapitk at iki.fi
Wed Jun 2 09:07:47 EEST 2010


On Wednesday 02 June 2010, Krister Lindén wrote:
> The HFST library can very well continue to be released under GPL2 as a
> whole.

Does this include implementations/openfst-1.1 too? It is under the Apache 
license. Common interpretation of the licenses is that you can't release 
Apache licensed code under GPL2 unless the authors of the Apache licensed code 
(in this case Google and at least two independent contributors) have 
explicitly agreed to it.

There is some disagreement whether this is a correct interpretation but at 
least FSF and Fedora seems to have written licensing guidelines that consider 
these licenses incompatible.

Harri



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