On Friday, 14 April 2017 at 16:31:24 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Friday, 14 April 2017 at 15:37:20 UTC, data pulverizer wrote:
You raise a very good point. My intention is to completely
re-write each function that was based on GSL's CBLAS while
upgrading the performance. Once this is done the library
should be regarded as a different work ... if anyone knows
more about how licenses work and can shed more light on this
approach please comment. I would not want people to avoid
using it in the future because of the license status.
Not a lawyer, but I think if you just port it to another
language it is a derived work in GPL and the ported project
must also be GPL.
However, if you're completely re-writing each function, I don't
know. Companies that do this would have one team look at every
function and write some specs for it and have another group
write it without reference to the original.
Thank you for the information ... looks like I need to talk to a
friendly lawyer to know for sure - if the term "friendly lawyer"
is not an oxymoron :-)
