[Bug 470173] Review Request: m4ri - Linear Algebra over F_2

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--- Comment #9 from Jason Tibbitts <tibbs at math.uh.edu>  2008-11-10 09:04:18 EDT ---
My understa(In reply to comment #7)
> Is an email from them much better than the front page of their website
> proclaiming GPLv2+?

Yes, unless you have some sort of copyright statement on the web site
indicating that its authorship is the same as the software.  I won't pretend to
speak for the lawyers, but as I understand things the idea is to discern the
intent of the copyright holders of the software.  An email, while obviously not
falsifiable by any stretch of the imagination, has been deemed sufficient for
this purpose.  Of course, that email must be included with the software as
documentation.

> Sorry, I don't have any software around using this library.

Well, then your options are:

* Find some way to test it by linking some code against it and seeing what
happens.

* Talk to someone who knows enough about the linker to answer the question.

* Wait for upstream to change things.

* Simply refuse to do one of the above and I'll return this ticket to the
queue; perhaps someone will approve it over my objections.  Let me know if this
is what you prefer.

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