On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/24/2010 2:36 AM, Friedrich Romstedt wrote: >> Can you explain to me why you are so restrictive about GPLed code? I >> mean, it's all OSS? > > > The licenses are very different: BSD (and MIT) do not impose a viral > copyleft. This is why Python is not GPL, nor is NumPy or Matplotlib. > People writing code under BSD-like licenses must carefully avoid viral > infection from GPL'd code. > > Second, while John Hunter's views are not identical to mine
Nor mine <wink>. I would say several things differently today -- here is the version I wrote for the mpl docs: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/coding_guide.html#why-bsd-compatible JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
