On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Matthieu Brucher > <matthieu.bruc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> According to the discussions on the ML, they switched from GPL to MPL >> to enable the kind of distribution numpy/scipy is looking for. They >> had some hesitations between BSD and MPL, but IIRC their official >> stand is to allow inclusion inside BSD-licensed code. > > If they want BSD-licensed projects to incorporate their code, they need to > license it under the BSD license (or similar). They are not in a position to > "allow" their MPL-licensed code to be included in a BSD-licensed project. > That just doesn't mean anything. We never needed their permission. We could > be "BSD-licensed except for this one bit which is MPLed", but we don't want > to be.
I agree that we shouldn't include Eigen code in NumPy. But what distributing windows binaries that include Eigen headers? They wrote this on their web site: """ Virtually any software may use Eigen. For example, closed-source software may use Eigen without having to disclose its own source code. Many proprietary and closed-source software projects are using Eigen right now, as well as many BSD-licensed projects. """ Fred _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion