[SciPy-dev] Official scikits licensing

[David Cournapeau]

Robert Kern wrote:
>
> """
> The recommended license for scikits projects is the (new) BSD license.
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html
> """
>
> Unofficially, for David, I do recommend against using the BSD license for
> wrappers of LGPLed or GPLed libraries. It just confuses matters. There probably
> isn't much code in the wrapper that can be usefully separated from the library.
> For such bits, people can simply ask you for a new license on the little bits of
> code.
So you mean relicensing under the GPL ? I have to confess that I myself 
much prefer the GPL to BSD anyway, and the only reason I released the 
code under BSD was to make it easier to integrate with scipy (that 
project was started before scikits).

David