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Today's Topics:
1. Re: cubature license (Saullo Castro)
2. License compatibility SciPy -> MIT -> GPL (Saullo Castro)
3. Re: License compatibility SciPy -> MIT -> GPL (Matthieu Brucher)
4. Re: License compatibility SciPy -> MIT -> GPL (Robert Kern)
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 08:40:09 +0200
From: Saullo Castro <saullogiovani@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SciPy-Dev] cubature license
To: Scipy-Dev <scipy-dev@scipy.org>
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@Warren
from the good disccusion here (
http://matplotlib.org/devel/license.html#license-discussion)
it seems that the biggest difference between the GPL and the BSD is that
the former requires you to distribute your source code, and the BSD allows
you to do whatever you want...
I don't see the problem to include it in SciPy, since the source code is
always distributed. Even if third part companies like Enthought are using
it, it is more like a module, isn't it? and the core code behind it can
still be BSD based.
Anyway, the software has a `clencurt_gen.c` stand-alone program which does
not have to be used unless the user whant a `p-adaptive` cubature with more
than 8193 points per dimension, this type of cubature applies
"p-refinement" (increase of interpolation function order) instead of
"h-refinement" (splitting the interval). I don't see a need to include this
program in the SciPy cubature. We can implement this restriction in the
wrapper.
I will ask Steven Johnson about this, if removing this part could make
cubature re-licensable to BSD.
Greetings!
Saullo
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> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:53:10 +0200
> From: Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [SciPy-Dev] cubature license
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> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Warren Weckesser <
> warren.weckesser@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/24/13, Saullo Castro <saullogiovani@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > @Alex,
> > >
> > > you are right, "it uses some GPL code from other projects (Hintlib and
> > > GSL).
> > > "
> > >
> > > But is it really impossible to include it in SciPy because of that?
> >
> > Yes. We do not include GPL-licensed code in SciPy. I haven't looked
> > at the Cubature code, so I don't know the extent to which it uses
> > HIntLib and GSL, but based on the comment on the web page, it is
> > unlikely that Steven Johnson can re-license his code with a license
> > that is compatible with SciPy. The GPL is viral that way (insert the
> > usual "I am not a lawyer" disclaimer here).
>
> It's not quite as viral as that. He can license the code that he himself
> wrote under whatever license he likes as long as it is compatible with the
> GPL license of the other libraries that he is combining his code with. If
> the code that he wrote is separable from HIntLib and GSL by rewriting that
> functionality, he can distribute his code under the BSD license for
> inclusion in SciPy.
>
> --
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> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:04:51 -0400
> From: Warren Weckesser <warren.weckesser@gmail.com>
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> On 8/24/13, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Warren Weckesser <
> > warren.weckesser@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8/24/13, Saullo Castro <saullogiovani@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > @Alex,
> >> >
> >> > you are right, "it uses some GPL code from other projects (Hintlib and
> >> > GSL).
> >> > "
> >> >
> >> > But is it really impossible to include it in SciPy because of that?
> >>
> >> Yes. We do not include GPL-licensed code in SciPy. I haven't looked
> >> at the Cubature code, so I don't know the extent to which it uses
> >> HIntLib and GSL, but based on the comment on the web page, it is
> >> unlikely that Steven Johnson can re-license his code with a license
> >> that is compatible with SciPy. The GPL is viral that way (insert the
> >> usual "I am not a lawyer" disclaimer here).
> >
> > It's not quite as viral as that. He can license the code that he himself
> > wrote under whatever license he likes as long as it is compatible with
> the
> > GPL license of the other libraries that he is combining his code with. If
> > the code that he wrote is separable from HIntLib and GSL by rewriting
> that
> > functionality, he can distribute his code under the BSD license for
> > inclusion in SciPy.
>
>
> Yes--thanks for the clarification.
>
> Warren
>
>
> >
> > --
> > Robert Kern
> >
>
>
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> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:16:16 -0400
> From: Warren Weckesser <warren.weckesser@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [SciPy-Dev] cubature license
> To: SciPy Developers List <scipy-dev@scipy.org>
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> On 8/24/13, Warren Weckesser <warren.weckesser@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/24/13, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Warren Weckesser <
> >> warren.weckesser@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 8/24/13, Saullo Castro <saullogiovani@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > @Alex,
> >>> >
> >>> > you are right, "it uses some GPL code from other projects (Hintlib
> and
> >>> > GSL).
> >>> > "
> >>> >
> >>> > But is it really impossible to include it in SciPy because of that?
> >>>
> >>> Yes. We do not include GPL-licensed code in SciPy. I haven't looked
> >>> at the Cubature code, so I don't know the extent to which it uses
> >>> HIntLib and GSL, but based on the comment on the web page, it is
> >>> unlikely that Steven Johnson can re-license his code with a license
> >>> that is compatible with SciPy. The GPL is viral that way (insert the
> >>> usual "I am not a lawyer" disclaimer here).
> >>
> >> It's not quite as viral as that. He can license the code that he himself
> >> wrote under whatever license he likes as long as it is compatible with
> >> the
> >> GPL license of the other libraries that he is combining his code with.
> If
> >> the code that he wrote is separable from HIntLib and GSL by rewriting
> >> that
> >> functionality, he can distribute his code under the BSD license for
> >> inclusion in SciPy.
> >
> >
> > Yes--thanks for the clarification.
> >
> > Warren
> >
>
>
> P.S.: Saullo, here are a couple links to more information about
> compatible licenses:
> http://wiki.scipy.org/License_Compatibility
> http://matplotlib.org/devel/license.html#license-discussion (the
> discussion of the matplotlib license is applicable to scipy)
>
> Warren
>
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Robert Kern
> >>
> >
>
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:00:43 +0200
From: Saullo Castro <saullogiovani@gmail.com>
Subject: [SciPy-Dev] License compatibility SciPy -> MIT -> GPL
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Well, we've been discussion the license combatility for the cubature module.
>From the links @Warren gave me:
http://wiki.scipy.org/License_Compatibility
http://matplotlib.org/devel/license.html#license-discussion
it states that the MIT license is compatible with SciPy, and in the MIT
description in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) it
states that this license is compatible with the GPL. So... is there a crack
here where we could place a GPL software in SciPy?
Thank you,
Saullo
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 08:11:40 +0100
From: Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SciPy-Dev] License compatibility SciPy -> MIT -> GPL
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Hi
Unfortunately, it is the other way around: you can put bsd code in gpl
code, but if you put gpl code into bsd code, the latter has to be
relicensed. Btw, if you put gpl code indide mit code, the same has to be
done.
Cheers
Le 25 ao?t 2013 08:00, "Saullo Castro" <saullogiovani@gmail.com> a ?crit :
> Well, we've been discussion the license combatility for the cubature
> module.
>
> From the links @Warren gave me:
> http://wiki.scipy.org/License_Compatibility
> http://matplotlib.org/devel/license.html#license-discussion
>
> it states that the MIT license is compatible with SciPy, and in the MIT
> description in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) it
> states that this license is compatible with the GPL. So... is there a crack
> here where we could place a GPL software in SciPy?
>
> Thank you,
> Saullo
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:46:00 +0200
From: Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SciPy-Dev] License compatibility SciPy -> MIT -> GPL
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On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Saullo Castro <saullogiovani@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Well, we've been discussion the license combatility for the cubature
module.
>
> From the links @Warren gave me:
> http://wiki.scipy.org/License_Compatibility
> http://matplotlib.org/devel/license.html#license-discussion
>
> it states that the MIT license is compatible with SciPy, and in the MIT
description in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) it
states that this license is compatible with the GPL. So... is there a crack
here where we could place a GPL software in SciPy?
No. License compatibility is not commutative. A license is GPL-compatible
if it adds no restrictions above those in the GPL. A license is
BSD-compatible (and thus scipy-compatible) if it adds no restrictions above
those in the BSD license. The GPL adds restrictions above those in the BSD
license.
We have decided as a matter of policy for the scipy project to only include
code that does not add more restrictions than roughly that of the BSD
license. This isn't really an issue of license compatibility. You can
combine BSD scipy code and GPL code just fine, but we have a policy against
including GPL code into scipy because we want to keep the licensing
situation simple and understandable and not copylefted. If some scipy
packages were BSD-licensed and some were GPL-licensed, everyone will have
to pay close attention to which ones they were using to be sure that they
are obeying the terms of the GPL license. That's really annoying. It is
much easier for everyone involved to keep the GPL code in an entirely
separate package.
I appreciate your effort in learning about these issues, but please
consider it an exercise in personal education rather than trying to find a
workaround to include GPL code in scipy. There isn't one.
--
Robert Kern
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