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. Best thing that could happen (and I'm not even sure it's allowed by the GSL's license (which is under the GPL not the LGPL) would be for SciPy to grow some sort of GSL backend to delegate its operations to, when the GSL is installed.