[Bug 459153] Review Request: ann - Library for searching Approximate Nearest Neighbors

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--- Comment #4 from Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz>  2008-08-17 04:40:58 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > You should be right with the license - the sources specify "Lesser GNU Public
> > License" without version and there is no "or any later version" clause. So
> > LGPLv2+ should be right.
> ?!?
> 
> Copying.txt explicitly says:
> "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by the
> Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your
> option) any later version."
> 
> => This is the "later version" clause.
> 
> License.txt says:
> "GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
> 
> Version 2.1, February 1999..."
> 
> => This is a copy of LGPLv2.1.
> 
> 
> => This package is LGPLv2+'ed

OK, thanks for explanation. I am really not a licensing expert, so I thought
that license text in the source files (*.cpp, *h)) is prioritized against the
included *.txt files and it leads into LGPLv2+ too.

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