[SciPy-dev] Official scikits licensing

[Alexander Schmolck]

Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> writes:

> This is the official word on scikits licensing: 

OK, I think this bit should just go verbatim on the scikits wiki:

> scikits packages are free to choose their own open source license. The
> license should be officially OSI approved. We will allow packages to contain
> code with licenses that, in our judgment, comply with the Open Source
> Definition but have not gone through the approval process. This is to allow
> us to adopt old code with permissive licenses. The package itself, though,
> should use a well-known OSI-approved license.

I think a recommendation for packages whose authors don't have any strong
preferences or that do not have other license constraints would be good to
give (BSD? Anything else that's just as good?), because this will reduce
unintended license incompatibilities between packages (not all OSI licenses
are compatible, obviously).

cheers,

'as