Hi, I have a question about the licence for NumPy's codebase. I am currently writing a library and I'd like to release under some BSD-type licence. Unfortunately, my choice to link against MIT's FFTW library (released under the GPL) means that, in its current state, this is not possible. I'm an avid NumPy user and thought to myself that, since NumPy's licence is BSD, I'd be able to use some of the source code (with due credit, of course) instead of FFTW. Is this possible? I mean, can I redistribute *PART* of NumPy's codebase? Namely, the fftpack.c file? I was under the impression that I could only redistribute BSD source code as a whole and then I read the licence more carefully and it states that I can modify the source to suit my needs. I consider 'redistributing a single file and ignoring the other files' as a 'modification' under the BSD definition, but maybe I'm thinking too wishfully here.
Any information on this matter would be greatly appreciated since I am a total code licence noob. Thank you. P.S. Yes, I know I could just release under the GPL, but I don't want to turn people off of packaging my work into a useful product licensed under BSD, or even make money from it. -- Damon McDougall http://damon-is-a-geek.com B2.39 Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry West Midlands CV4 7AL United Kingdom _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
