On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Juan Nunez-Iglesias <jni.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stef...@berkeley.edu> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017, at 16:32, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote: >> > Stéfan, as an aside, I notice that SPORCO is BSD, but uses PyFFTW. >> >> Yes, I'm aware. If we ever do rely on this code, we'll have to switch >> that out. > > > I'm not pointing it out to switch it out. Rather, I've heard from many GPL > proponents that linking/importing GPL in BSD code is fine, and saying the > opposite is simply FUD. So I'm wondering whether SPORCO is unwittingly > illegal or simply bearing this out. Know of any cases where this has been > specifically tested?
You can combine GPL and BSD code, and it's certainly not illegal; it's just that you may have to treat the combined work as being under the GPL. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ scikit-image mailing list scikit-image@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-image
