On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher@gmail.com> wrote:
According to the discussions on the ML, they switched from GPL to MPL to enable the kind of distribution numpy/scipy is looking for. They had some hesitations between BSD and MPL, but IIRC their official stand is to allow inclusion inside BSD-licensed code.
If they want BSD-licensed projects to incorporate their code, they need to license it under the BSD license (or similar). They are not in a position to "allow" their MPL-licensed code to be included in a BSD-licensed project. That just doesn't mean anything. We never needed their permission. We could be "BSD-licensed except for this one bit which is MPLed", but we don't want to be.
I agree that we shouldn't include Eigen code in NumPy. But what distributing windows binaries that include Eigen headers? They wrote this on their web site: """ Virtually any software may use Eigen. For example, closed-source software may use Eigen without having to disclose its own source code. Many proprietary and closed-source software projects are using Eigen right now, as well as many BSD-licensed projects. """ Fred