[SciPy-user] SciPy and PyGSL

Kasper Souren Kasper.Souren at ircam.fr
Sun Mar 30 17:41:14 EST 2003


> IIRC, the biggest issue with GSL is the GPL license.  SciPy uses a BSD
> style license.  Since the GPL is so restrictive, if SciPy even linked
> to libgsl, SciPy would need to be released as GPL.  Dual licensing as
> GPL/BSD is meaningless.

Why exactly is (or: do you find?) GPL/BSD meaningless?
KDE and OpenOffice.org use a GPL/other license. But the other license is not 
BSD in these cases.

bye,
Kasper



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