License in question

Dirk Huenniger hunniger at cip.physik.uni-bonn.de
Wed Nov 16 20:16:42 UTC 2005


Hello everybody,
I would like to use a library in an GPLed project and distribute this
library together
with the project. The library is licensed in the following way. Do you
know if this is Ok or would you suggest to use another (GPLed but less
documented packed) package instead?
Cheers Dirk

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