License clarification: repo LICENSE is LGPL-2.1 but the Maven POM declares Apache-2.0

[nboutard]

Hi, and thanks for MolVec. We're evaluating it as a library dependency and noticed a licensing discrepancy we'd like to clarify before adopting it:

• The repository's LICENSE file is the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1.
• The published Maven artifact gov.nih.ncats:molvec:0.9.8 declares <license><name>Apache-2.0</name></license> in its POM.
• The .java source files carry no per-file license header.

Could you confirm which license is canonical for molvec, and whether it applies uniformly across released versions? It determines how downstream projects may use and redistribute the library. Thank you!

[dkatzel-home]

It should be Apache. We released over a dozen related maven projects around the same time, some were Apache, some were LGPL depending on various dependencies and usecases. It looks like the wrong Licence.md file was included in this project 7 years ago (!)

It's safe to say this project is Apache-2.0 and always has been as stated in the pom. I will see to it that the license file is updated.

Thanks