On 08/02/2012 10:44 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.
Not related to licensing, but here's another port of FFTPACK to C by Martin Reinecke, licensed under BSD. The README has the links to the original Fortran sources that this is based on. https://github.com/dagss/libfftpack Dag _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
