Re: gifsicle license question

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Orion Poplawski wrote:
Most of gifsicle is GPLv2+, but one file (src/clp.c) is under the "Click" license:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

The name and trademarks of copyright holders may NOT be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to the Software without specific, written prior permission. Title to copyright in this Software and any associated documentation will at all times remain with copyright holders.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


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Looks a lot like MIT to me.  So "GPLv2+ and MIT"?


It is MIT (new style), but unless that c file gets build into a binary all by itself, the resulting binaries are all GPLv2+ (as thats the more restrective license of their input files. And this the license tag is simple:
License: GPLv2+

Regards,

Hans


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