Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sébastien Maret wrote:
> > I've written a fink package for the CFITSIO library, but I don't know 
> > which licence type is appropriate (OSI-Approved ?) . From the licence file:
> 
> OSI-Approved should be fine, the majority of it (the first part) is 
> essentially a BSD license, and then a small part uses a GPL'd library.
> 
> It's probably enough to use "BSD" even.
> 


Sorry, I have to disagree.

Unless your package takes the steps outlined in the license to avoid the
use of the GPL'd code in the library, the entire package should be marked
as GPL (since the GPL will apply to any other package linking to the
library).

  -- Dave



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