[SciPy-User] Distributing SciPy and NumPy

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

cool-RR wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a project called GarlicSim which I want to distribute as an 
> executable, packaged using py2exe. I want to package numpy and scipy 
> with it, so they can be used by the end user. This means I'll be 
> distributing an installer which installs scipy and numpy to my 
> application's library.
>
> Are there any licensing issues I should be aware of? Is there any LGPL 
> or GPL licensing in there?
You need a LAPACK implementation to use SciPy, and those come with 
various licenses. But SciPy+ATLAS is a common combination which is all BSD.

SciPy developers are pretty conscious about keeping GPL or LGPL code out 
of the main SciPy library (though some scikits libraries are under GPL).

Dag Sverre