On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 14:17, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:
Is code that is published verbatim inside a paper (not as attachment) license restricted?
Yes, of course, provided that the code is otherwise copyrightable.
The Journal of Statistical Software publishes code under GPL. Does GPL also apply to source snippets or functions that are included in the text of the article, or is there a fair use assumption on the text of the article?
Including code in scipy does not fall under fair use, so that's neither here nor there.
You can ask the authors for permission, if you like, but it's best just to read the paper, and write new code.
Puting it the other way round --- when writing a paper I should explicitely state, that all code is BSD, then people should not be afraid of looking at it, right? Ondrej