Re: Recent license change?

[Karol Suprynowicz]

The 10 000 EUR part was a bit worrying, especially as worded in Debian 
repository version :)
Thanks for reply and for creating this amazing software, I'll definitely 
cite it in my phd thesis and articles.


Dnia 2015-06-25 21:53 Ole Tange napisał(a):

>On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Karol Suprynowicz <ksuprynowicz@post.pl> 
wrote:
>
>> I've created Digital Image Correlation software package that I intend to
>> distribute on open-source license (probably also GPL v3), and I'd like to
>> use GNU Parallel for some parallel data processing - it's very useful 
tool.
>> In such case clear licensing terms are very important - I don't want to 
open
>> myself or someone else to the possibility of ligitation.
>> What is the current license for GNU Parallel? Is it compatibile with GPL 
v3?
>
>The current licence is GPL v3, so you are fine. In later versions it
>has been made clear that it is academic tradition that requires you to
>cite, when publishing articles.
>
>You might also find it interesting that if you do not change GNU
>Parallel, but simply distribute it unmodified next to your program,
>your program does not have to licensed under a GPL v3 compatible
>license - even if it calls GNU Parallel. You program does not become a
>derived work of GNU Parallel simply by calling it.
>
>
>/Ole
>