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--- Gio 13/5/10, Peter Rosin  ha scritto:

> Den 2010-05-13 05:51 skrev Tatsuro
> MATSUOKA:
> > 2. The gnuplot on the release is linked to the GNU
> readline.=A0 Obiously the licence is the gnuplot is
> > not the GPL compatible.
>=20
> Well, linking with libeditline instead of libreadline will
> not solve this
> issue as the cygwin dll is also GPL. So, if gnuplot is
> deemed to not be
> license compatible, it needs to be removed from the cygwin
> distribution
> altogether.
>=20
> Cheers,
> Peter
>=20

http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/gnuplot/gnuplot/Copyri=
ght?revision=3D1.2

the license seems very open, and our distribution of the source
seems compliant with the requirements.

But of course "I Am Not A Lawyer"


Marco






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