[SciPy-User] Distributing SciPy and NumPy

[Anne Archibald]

On 11 May 2010 11:04, Benjamin Root <ben.root at ou.edu> wrote:

> Argh!  You can make money on open source code!  This isn't the proper place
> to discuss it, but the open-source community is not a charity case.
> Open-source is a very viable business model.

Not to spawn a  discussion, but this is germane - Enthought, that
maintains mayavi and pays many of the main numpy/scipy developers, is
a for-profit open-source-based company. They just have a different
business model than Microsoft (thankfully!).

>> This legal stuff confuses the hell outta me... :S
>
> Same here.  Also, IANAL, so this isn't legal advice, merely the distillation
> of various discussions on this topic.

Copyright law is a nightmare.

Anne