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by rtb 4612 days ago
I don't think that's the case. It appears to be LGPL + BSD. That should be fine for pretty much any use.

"Postmodern" has it from the linked twitter thread: "they [are] probably confusing LGPL with GPL/AGPL, or are afraid of getting Stallman cooties."
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justincormack 4612 days ago
No it is not LGPL+BSD according to the license, it is LGPL3 https://github.com/ffi/ffi/blob/master/LICENSE

Parts of it being BSD does not mean it is dual licensed, it just means you can remove the BSD parts and reuse them elsewhere as BSD; you cannot just take BSD files and strip out the license as the terms say the license must remain included.

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belorn 4612 days ago
The license of the combined work is under LGPLv3, but the individual code parts is either under LGPLv3 or Modified BSD License (or LGPL+BSD for short).

Its correct however that one can not remove the actually license text from the BSD licensed code. Doing so would be a license violation of the BSD license terms #1.

This is the good part about BSD for FOSS projects. One do not need to do any active action to be in compliance with the license. Do changes, add any licenses, and so long the license text on the BSD source code is intact, you are in the green.

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