Licensing mispatch between hdf5 and these plugins

[picca]

Hello, it seems that the license of hdf5 is now bsd-3-clauses [1]

Is it possible to re-license all the plugins withe same license.

this way it will be a lot consistent between hdf5 and the plugins.

for example, hdf5 is compatible with the GPL license, but plugins are not [2], advertising clause.

thanks for considering.

[1] https://www.hdfgroup.org/package/hdf5/?wpdmdl=12838&refresh=5e9abfde35b691587199966
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#4-clause_license_(original_%22BSD_License%22)

[eugenwintersberger]

Hi Frederic,
i made a little survey and it turns out that the situation is a bit more complex than I expected. Lets start with the filter code

• the bitshuffle code has its origins here
• the BLOSC code is from Francesc Alted and has its origins from the PyTables project
• BZIP2 is from PyTables too
• the LZ4 code, I suspect, was added by Herbert. But I am not sure if this is his code or if he took it from somewhere else.

For most of the infrastructure files I think we can easily change the license, however, for the third party stuff we have to contact the original authors.

[yayahjb]

I suspect it will be impossible to get the entire and growing zoo of hdf5 plugins to merge on any single license, unless we narrow the focus to a small set of packages, and even then it will take time and effort. Especially with the hdf5 group now having moved their plugin downloads behind a paywall, I would suggest treading carefully. -- Herbert

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On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 4:54 AM picca ***@***.***> wrote: Hello, it seems that the license of hdf5 is now bsd-3-clauses [1] Is it possible to re-license all the plugins withe same license. this way it will be a lot consistent between hdf5 and the plugins. for example, hdf5 is compatible with the GPL license, but plugins are not [2], advertising clause. thanks for considering. [1] https://www.hdfgroup.org/package/hdf5/?wpdmdl=12838&refresh=5e9abfde35b691587199966 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#4-clause_license_(original_%22BSD_License%22) — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#14>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABB6EAIVBWGEVJPQ7CG2QODRNFTDHANCNFSM4MLIRSIA> .

[eugenwintersberger]

Can I close this issue?