[SciPy-Dev] FFTLog

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:57 AM, Daπid <davidmenhur at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 October 2016 at 16:25, Dieter Werthmüller <dieter at werthmuller.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >  1. Copyright(C) 1996 Takuya OOURA (email: ooura at mmm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp).
> >  2. You may use, copy, modify this code for any purpose and without fee.
> >  3. You may distribute this ORIGINAL package.
> > In the second sentence, it basically states that you can do whatever you
> > want with it. Then as far as I understand the third sentence, it just
> > gives additionally and specifically the permission to even distribute
> > the unchanged package. Or does the absence of the word 'distribute' in
> > the second sentence cause a problem?
>
>
> With my scientist hat on, I think that he intended to let you do
> whatever you want with it, but with my not-really-a-lawyer hat, it can
> be interpreted both ways, so an actual lawyer may get squeamish
> without a more explicit agreement.
>

Agreed. With common sense it's clearly fine to reuse his code, but legal
stuff isn't common sense - it could also be read as giving permission to
redistribute only the original code and not a modified version.

Ralf
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