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

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017, at 18:43, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > 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.

And advertise it as such; whereas scikit-image explicitly labels itself
as BSD.

In a sense, not too dissimilar from packages released under BSD, but
then implement patented algorithms.  You have to make your users aware
of what they're getting themselves into.

Stéfan