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Bug #2765
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Incompatible licenses between ns-3 and ndnSIM
Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
docs
Target version:
-
Start date:
04/22/2015
Due date:
% Done:
0%
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Description
ns-3 is released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.
ndnSIM is released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3.
These two licenses are incompatible with each other. It's a copyright violation when ndnSIM is linked with ns-3.
Updated by Junxiao Shi almost 9 years ago
ndnSIM itself doesn't violate copyright, because ndnSIM repository doesn't contain ns-3 code.
However, anyone who installs ndnSIM would have to link ndnSIM with ns-3, and whoever doing this would violate copyright.
The solution is to either re-license ns-3 as a GPL3-compatible license by obtaining permission from its authors, or re-license ndnSIM as a GPL2-compatible license.
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