On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/4/21 Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]>: >> On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Brian Granger wrote: >> >>>> Lets not count on doing so for now at least. There are license >>>> considerations to consider too--f2py is GPL and as such wouldn't make >>>> it into Python without relicensing. >>> >>> Mmmm, f2py ships with numpy and thus can't be GPL. The home page of >>> f2py lists is as LGPL. Now whether or not that is sufficient for >>> Python itself is another question. >> >> Yes, sorry, LGPL. In any case, lets treat it as an external >> dependancy for now. > > 1. I think there is no way Python would ship LGPL'd code as part of > standard Python. > > 2. That f2py ships with numpy doesn't imply that f2py isn't GPL > (though it of course isn't GPL).
It indeed does not imply anything legally, but we would rather not include any shipped code which is not BSD. I was actually very surprised to learn that f2py was not BSD-like, and I checked the sources of f2py as shipped in numpy: those are explicitly covered by the Numpy license, as can be seen by numpy/f2py/docs/README.txt: .. -*- rest -*- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ F2PY: Fortran to Python interface generator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Pearu Peterson <[email protected]> :License: NumPy License :Web-site: http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/ :Discussions to: `f2py-users mailing list`_ :Documentation: `User's Guide`__, FAQ__ :Platforms: All :Date: $Date: 2005/01/30 18:54:53 $ ... Davd _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
