On 2009-08-13 16:25 PM, Kurt Smith wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Kurt Smith<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Dag Sverre >> Seljebotn<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Robert Bradshaw wrote: > <snip> >>>>> >>>>> ~150K compressed. >>>> >>>> That seems acceptable to me. Given that you've volunteered to >>>> maintain it, and numerics certainly is an important audience of >>>> Cython, it seems to make sense to bundle it. >>> >> >> Good -- I sent an email to Pearu Peterson on the f2py-dev list to get >> his official approval, to check on licensing compatibilites, and to >> sort out the nuts and bolts of versioning fparser once it stabilizes, >> etc. > > I have Pearu's permission to include fparser in Cython. Fparser is > BSD licensed, and I'll be reading through it to see what requirements > there are. If the following site is authoritative: > > http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/floss-license-slide.html > > then it looks like we won't have licensing issues.
It would be worth asking Pearu to explicitly give his code to you under the Apache license. He doesn't have to relicense fparser in general, but just give it to you under that license so you can correctly claim that all of Cython is Apache licensed. It's an annoying process for substantially similar licenses, but it will make a few things easier down the line. In particular, if Cython is still serious about inclusion into the standard library, this is a necessity since the PSF will accept Apache-licensed code and not BSD-licensed code. I believe this was one of the original reasons for using the Apache license for Cython to begin with. -- 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 _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
