You’re right, the LICENSE.md file is pretty explicit.

 — John

On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:08 AM, Tobias Knopp <[email protected]> wrote:

> Isn't the LICENSE.md file in Julia pretty clear? Julia is MIT licensed and 
> repl-readline.c is GPL. I don't see the problem. If I where using libjulia, I 
> can use it in a commercial program. One is of course not allowed to ship fftw 
> though. Still, libjulia and all the .jl files in Base are MIT licensed.
> 
> I evantually plan to integrate Julia into a commerical product and I have 
> made some contributions to Julia and Gtk.jl. If Julia would be GPL I would 
> not have done this.
> 
> Am Montag, 27. Januar 2014 22:21:31 UTC+1 schrieb John Myles White:
> Yes, the main LICENSE file for Julia should contain more details about the 
> legal status of subsets of the code and also about the distribution as an 
> entirety.
> 
>  -- John
> 
> On Jan 27, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Hans W Borchers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but this is not downloaded with the source.
>> At least in my "source-master" directory there is no COPYING file.
>> And if the whole Julia distribution is GPLed, I would expect a version of 
>> the license on highest level.
>> 
>> 
>> On Monday, January 27, 2014 11:10:37 AM UTC+1, Shaun Walbridge wrote:
>> The components which use the GPL license do already include copies of the 
>> license -- e.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/Rmath/blob/master/COPYING. I 
>> believe this is true for the other GPL components as well (readline, FFTW, 
>> patchelf).
>> 
> 

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