This should be completely fine. The fftpack.h file indicates that fftpack code came from Tela originally anyway and was translated from the Fortran code FFTPACK.
Good luck with your project. -Travis On Aug 2, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Damon McDougall wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
