On 2012-02-10, at 11:09 , Robert Kern wrote:
On 2/10/12 8:49 AM, Masklinn wrote:
On 2012-02-10, at 01:03 , Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Sturla Molden<sturla@molden.no> wrote:
Den 9. feb. 2012 kl. 23:56 skrev Guido van Rossum<guido@python.org>: ).
Hm... is there a reason GSL and SciPy need to compete? Can't SciPy incorporate GSL?
GPL vs BSD issue.
That's a bummer. Someone should open negotiations.
I'm not sure what could be open to negotiate, being part of the GNU constellation I don't see GSL budging from the GPL, and SciPy is backed by industry members and used in "nonfree" products (notably the Enthought Python Distribution) so there's little room for it to use the GPL.
While I am an Enthought employee and really do want to keep scipy BSD so I can continue to use it in the proprietary software that I write for clients, I must also add that the most vociferous BSD advocates in our community are the academics. They have to wade through more weird licensing arrangements than I do, and the flexibility of the BSD license is quite important to let them get their jobs done.
Completely true, I'd thought about this case but completely forgot about it when I started actually writing my message, I'm very sorry.