[SciPy-dev] Official scikits licensing

[Robert Kern]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:

>> 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 recommend making wrappers available under the license of the underlying
library if it's one of the standard ones. If it's GPL, then GPL. If it's LGPL,
then LGPL. BSD, then BSD. Some ad hoc, but permissive license, then BSD.

You said that the underlying library was LGPLed, so I recommend the LGPL in that
case.

> 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).

Well, since that wouldn't have worked anyways, there's not much point in keeping
the wrappers as BSD.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco