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quick question - of the gazillion open-source licenses: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ which are compatible with scipy? are some "more compatible" than others? any outright incompatible? thanks, -John A. Turner Los Alamos National Lab Advanced Scientific Simulation, CCS-2
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"John" == John A Turner <turner@lanl.gov> writes:
John> quick question - of the gazillion open-source licenses: John> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ John> which are compatible with scipy? are some "more compatible" John> than others? any outright incompatible? The question of licenses came up recently in the thread "constrained optimization", and the answers Travis Oliphant: Libraries in SciPy need an unrestrictive open source license (something like the Python license itself or the BSD license) Eric Jones: free for academic/commercial, no restrictions that additions must be contributed back to package Here is a link to the license itself: http://scipy.net/cgi-bin/viewcvsx.cgi/*checkout*/scipy/LICENSE.txt?rev=1.2 This is not a direct answer to your question, but may give you enough information to answer it. John Hunter
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Yep. I'd say that about covers it. eric ---------------------------------------------- eric jones 515 Congress Ave www.enthought.com Suite 1614 512 536-1057 Austin, Tx 78701
-----Original Message----- From: scipy-user-admin@scipy.net [mailto:scipy-user-admin@scipy.net] On Behalf Of John Hunter Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:20 AM To: scipy-user@scipy.net Subject: Re: [SciPy-user] compatible license(s)
"John" == John A Turner <turner@lanl.gov> writes:
John> quick question - of the gazillion open-source licenses: John> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
John> which are compatible with scipy? are some "more compatible" John> than others? any outright incompatible?
The question of licenses came up recently in the thread "constrained optimization", and the answers
Travis Oliphant:
Libraries in SciPy need an unrestrictive open source license (something like the Python license itself or the BSD license)
Eric Jones:
free for academic/commercial, no restrictions that additions must be contributed back to package
Here is a link to the license itself:
http://scipy.net/cgi- bin/viewcvsx.cgi/*checkout*/scipy/LICENSE.txt?rev=1.2
This is not a direct answer to your question, but may give you enough information to answer it.
John Hunter
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eric jones wrote:
Yep. I'd say that about covers it.
sorry to need further explanation... so in addition to the Python and BSD licenses, Artisic (Perl) would be ok as well, but GPL would not, right? how about Mozilla (MPL 1.1): http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php I'm wondering specifically about sections 3.1-3.3 and 3.7 thanks... -John Turner LANL / CCS-2
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