Ok, thanks. I knew it had to be a silly question :-) david
On Oct 1, 3:22 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, David Harvey <dmhar...@cims.nyu.edu> wrote: > > > I am confused. I want to release bernmm 1.1 under the (modified) BSD > > license. It depends on NTL, which is GPL-licensed. Can I do this? > > Yes, definitely. > > > Or am I forced to release bernmm under GPL? > > Definitely not. > > If you are going to distribute your program (which you are), then you > must release it under a GPL-compatible license. The (modified) BSD > license is GPL-compatible. Thus you can release it under the BSD > license. > > From the FAQ David just pointed to: "you must release your program > under a license compatible with the GPL (more precisely, compatible > with one or more GPL versions accepted by all the rest of the code in > the combination that you link)." > > Just for comparison, if you were forced to release bernmm under GPL, > then I would similarly be forced to get every BSD'd component of Sage > to be relicensed under the GPL in order to include them in Sage. > > William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
