<p>This may be overconfident - how does copyright law deal with translations in literature? Still, it certainly makes infringement less likely, and the earlier explicit statement that code was copied likely the result of confusion.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2012 8:33 AM, "Niklas Larsson" <<a href="mailto:metaniklas@gmail.com">metaniklas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> The problem is that FXT library is GPL and thus containers package can not<br>
> be considered as BSD3. And it means that it can not be used in my case<br>
> (closed source software).<br>
><br>
> Is this logic actually correct and containers should be considered as GPL?<br>
><br>
> The package is widely used by other packages and the only way I see right<br>
> now is to fix sources to reimplement this functionality, which is not good<br>
> option.<br>
><br>
<br>
There is no copied code from FXT (which can be said with certainty as<br>
FXT is a C library), hence the there can be copyright issue.<br>
<br>
Niklas<br>
<br>
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