[paramiko] redistributing parts of paramiko

[Dwayne Litzenberger]

On April 17, 2008 02:45:30 pm sebek wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am new to the list and I am currently developing a graphical ssh
> connection manager under the GPL licence based on paramiko and pygtk.
>
> As I will be asking to my users to install paramiko by themselves, I
> won't redistribute paramiko with my software.
>
> However, I wonder if I can redistribute the file "interactive.py" that
> is included in the paramiko examples. This file is handy to create
> interactive connections. I will keep the file as a whole (especially the
> licence and copyright).
>
> Can I redistribute it?

I am neither your lawyer, nor the copyright holder for interactive.py.
However, I note that interactive.py has the following header:

    Copyright (C) 2003-2007  Robey Pointer <robey at lag.net>
    
    This file is part of paramiko.
    
    Paramiko is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at
    your option) any later version.

Section 3 of the GNU LGPL 2.1 states:

    3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
    License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library.  To do
    this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so that
    they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2, instead
    of to this License.  (If a newer version than version 2 of the ordinary
    GNU General Public License has appeared, then you can specify that version
    instead if you wish.)  Do not make any other change in these notices.

    Once this change is made in a given copy, it is irreversible for that
    copy, so the ordinary GNU General Public License applies to all subsequent
    copies and derivative works made from that copy.

    This option is useful when you wish to copy part of the code of the
    Library into a program that is not a library.

So if your program is GPL-licenced, I believe it can incorporate LGPL-covered
Paramiko.

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