[Bug 504405] Review Request: jaxodraw - A Java program for drawing Feynman diagrams

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--- Comment #7 from Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi>  2009-06-16 13:21:51 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Well, GPLv2+ and LPPL are incompatible 

All of the source code is GPLv2+.

The only file which is LPPL is the LaTeX stylefile, which is used in exports to
EPS or LaTeX format (jaxodraw's output goes into a temp file which includes the
stylefile and is compiled into eps).

> and as far as I
> see the source code this package is still legally problematic.  

Howcome? It's purely GPLv2+.


Quote from upstream reply:

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 09:59 +0200, Lukas Theussl wrote:
Hi again,
> 
> After some discussions with John and Jos I just want to sum up our conclusions for 
> reference:
> 
> * The FORM license does not apply to any part of our work and any reference to it 
> will be removed
> 
> * JaxoDraw is distributed under GPL
> 
> * axodraw4j (and future axodraw2) are distributed under LPPL
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -Lukas
>

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