Reusing libosmovty library and licensing

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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.org
Thu Aug 2 10:26:21 UTC 2018


On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 11:18:44AM +0300, Mykola Shchetinin wrote:
> Hello, Harald,
> 
> I am reusing the libosmovty in my program. And hence my program must
> have the same license (AGPL-3.0), mustn't it?

libosmovty is not AGPL-3.0, but licensed under GNU GPL v2 or later.  You
can use any compatible license, such as (not exhaustive) GPLv2, GPLv3,
AGPLv3, LGPLv2.1, LGPLv3, MIT/X, BSD, MPL 2.0, ...  see for example
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

> Also, the question regarding the copyright message in the terminal:
> Should I leave the "Copyright (C) 201* by Harald Welte..." string or
> should I add my name and company there alongside yours. Or can I just
> leave my name there?

The copyright message is part of host.app_info->copyright, i.e. provided
by the application.  libosmovty doesn't print a message itself, so you
do not need to attribute me or any other libosmovty authors (mainly
Kuninhiro Ishiguro).

Good luck with libosmovty!  I don't think we have many users outside of
Osmocom so far.  May I ask what your program is doing/implementing?

Regards,
	Harald

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