[Met_help] license problem

[John Halley Gotway]

Brian,

I spoke with our legal adviser, Sarah Pritchard, this afternoon regarding this license issue.  After reading through both the GPL and the "MET Terms of Use", she doesn't see a reason why the "MET 
Terms of Use" needs to in compliance with the GPL since we don't distribute any of the GSL code itself.  It is the MET users who are actually combining the two when they build the code.

I'd like to refer you to her for further discussions on this issue if possible.  Or perhaps there's someone on the legal side of things with GNU who could discuss this with Sarah.

I've copied Sarah on this message, and here's her email address: sarahp at ucar.edu

Hopefully we can get this all ironed out.

Thanks,
John Halley-Gotway

Brian Gough wrote:
> At Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:03:54 -0700,
> John Halley Gotway wrote:
>> Since we're not actually distributing the GSL code itself, is
>> compliance with the GPL still an issue?  Or is it the case that,
>> since we're making calls to GSL routines, we need to be compliant
>> with the GPL?  Please let me know if it's the latter, and I'll
>> forward the "MET Terms of Use" and the GPL to our legal adviser and
>> ask her to address this issue.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your email.
> 
> It's the latter - calls to GSL routines.
>