Potential licensing issue with szip.dll

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Since May 7, 2018.

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HDF.PInvoke ships with SZIP in native/HDF5 1.10/bin64/szip.dll. According to https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/Szip+Compression+in+HDF+Products the SZIP library is licensed restrictively, only allowing non-commercial use without a paid license.

However, the COPYING file in the repository root does not state that restriction and the license of the NuGet package states:

HDF5 is available with the SZIP compression library but SZIP is not part
of HDF5 and has separate copyright and license terms. See “Szip Compression
in HDF Products” (https://support.hdfgroup.org/doc_resource/SZIP/) for
further details.

Thus by solely reading the licensing terms, I would believe that the HDF.PInvoke NuGet package is free to use both for commercial and non-commercial products, which is indeed not the case due to the SZIP restrictions.

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