2009/10/1 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>: > > 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
A long time ago I asked fsf themselves about a similar question :-) They were very kind and pointed me to this: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html [I wanted to add GPL code to components of a MIT licensed project, but it did not go far, and to avoid problems, I just ignored the license issue and used standard MIT] Paulo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
