Not legally, but it's best to be clear that the combined work is GPL. On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Tom Breloff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to be super clear... if I was to use this package from within Plots, > would I need to change anything about my license file? > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Yes, it is completely allowed. As long as you do not violate the GPL >> license of the code you are creating a derived work with – and the >> releasing your code under the MIT license satisfies the GPL, so it's fine. >> What you cannot do is release a derived work that is or uses proprietary >> code since that would mean that you are not abiding by the terms of the GPL >> and your right to use or redistribute the GPL code would be nullified. >> >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Tom Breloff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Robert... it is of interest :) >>> >>> I'm curious... is this really allowed? >>> >>> The Julia code in this package is MIT licensed and the Fortran code is >>>> licensed under GPL. >>> >>> >>> Can I call this from another package that is fully MIT (and without >>> mentioning the license), or does that GPL notice need to be attached to >>> everything up the dependency chain? >>> >>> Also... if possible it would be preferable to remove the dependency on >>> DataFrames (but I understand that's a tough decision to make after the >>> fact). >>> >>> Thanks for the contribution. >>> Tom >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Robert DJ <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I ended up wrapping the Fortran code from the R package. If it's of >>>> interest I'm sharing the code: >>>> https://github.com/robertdj/Deldir.jl >>>> >>> >>> >> >
