alexgorbatchev/SyntaxHighlighter — Issue #46: GPL? LGPL?
Author: hirak
Created: 2011-10-08 00:50:58+00:00
State: open

SyntaxHighlighter license notation is a mixture of GPL and LGPL.

1) "You may use any SyntaxHighlighter project under the terms of eigher the MIT License or the GNU General Public License(GPL) Version 3."

However, "GPL" is linked to the LGPL.
http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/about.html

2) distribute the LGPL in github.
https://github.com/alexgorbatchev/SyntaxHighlighter/blob/master/LGPL-LICENSE

3) The source code has been described as the GPL license.
"Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses."
https://github.com/alexgorbatchev/SyntaxHighlighter/blob/master/build/includes/header.txt

LGPL and GPL are different.
I think you should be consistent with LGPL.

For example,

1) http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/about.html

"You may use any SyntaxHighlighter project under the terms of either the MIT License or the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3."
to
"You may use any SyntaxHighlighter project under the terms of either the MIT License or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 3."

3) https://github.com/alexgorbatchev/SyntaxHighlighter/blob/master/build/includes/header.txt
* @ License
* Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.
to
* @ License
* Dual licensed under the MIT or LGPL licenses.

SyntaxHighlighter is great software, and I want to use.
However, my company is strictly a software license, and I can not use the ambiguous notation software license.

Would you correct representation of the license?