Eigen is primarily MPL2 licensed. See COPYING.MPL2 and these links: http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/ http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/FAQ.htmlSome files contain third-party code under BSD or LGPL licenses, whence the otherCOPYING.* files here.All the LGPL code is either LGPL 2.1-only, or LGPL 2.1-or-later.For this reason, the COPYING.LGPL file contains the LGPL 2.1 text.If you want to guarantee that the Eigen code that you are #including is licensedunder the MPL2 and possibly more permissive licenses (like BSD), #define thispreprocessor symbol: EIGEN_MPL2_ONLYFor example, with most compilers, you could add this to your project CXXFLAGS: -DEIGEN_MPL2_ONLYThis will cause a compilation error to be generated if you #include any code that isLGPL licensed.