2016-04-27 15:10 GMT+02:00 Mosè Giordano <[email protected]>: > Hi Kristoffer, > > 2016-04-27 14:32 GMT+02:00 Kristoffer Carlsson <[email protected]>: >> This looks interesting. > > Thank you! > >> It is in my opinion a bit unfortunate that you chose >> to use the GPL license for this since it means that it will not be usable by >> most packages in Julia which are under MIT license. > > Actually I used LGPL, not GPL, because the original Fortran library I > translated to Julia is released with that license, and, as far as I > know, you can you an LGPL program into a MIT one. ^^^
Oops, while writing the email I skipped the verb: in place of the second wrong "you" read "use". To avoid further confusion, a MIT program can link to an LPGL one, provided that certain conditions are met (but no license change is required), see section 4 of LGPLv3 text. Cheers, Mosè
