[scikit-image] linking to GPL code from BSD code (was: BM3D)

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Juan Nunez-Iglesias <jni.soma at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017, at 16:32, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote:
>> > Stéfan, as an aside, I notice that SPORCO is BSD, but uses PyFFTW.
>>
>> Yes, I'm aware.  If we ever do rely on this code, we'll have to switch
>> that out.
>
>
> I'm not pointing it out to switch it out. Rather, I've heard from many GPL
> proponents that linking/importing GPL in BSD code is fine, and saying the
> opposite is simply FUD. So I'm wondering whether SPORCO is unwittingly
> illegal or simply bearing this out. Know of any cases where this has been
> specifically tested?

You can combine GPL and BSD code, and it's certainly not illegal; it's
just that you may have to treat the combined work as being under the
GPL.

-n

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