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). >> >
