Re: [julia-users] General Licensing Question

You’re right, the LICENSE.md file is pretty explicit. — John On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:08 AM, Tobias Knopp wrote: > Isn't the LICENSE.md file in Julia pretty clear? Julia is MIT licensed and > repl-readline.c is GPL. I don't see the problem. If I where using libjulia, I > can use it in a commerc

Re: [julia-users] General Licensing Question

Isn't the LICENSE.md file in Julia pretty clear? Julia is MIT licensed and repl-readline.cis GPL. I don't see the problem. If I where using libjulia, I can use it in a commercial program. One is of course not allowed to ship fftw

Re: [julia-users] General Licensing Question

Yes, the main LICENSE file for Julia should contain more details about the legal status of subsets of the code and also about the distribution as an entirety. -- John On Jan 27, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Hans W Borchers wrote: > Yes, but this is not downloaded with the source. > At least in my "sour

Re: [julia-users] General Licensing Question

Yes, but this is not downloaded with the source. At least in my "source-master" directory there is no COPYING file. And if the whole Julia distribution is GPLed, I would expect a version of the license on highest level. On Monday, January 27, 2014 11:10:37 AM UTC+1, Shaun Walbridge wrote: > > Th

Re: [julia-users] General Licensing Question

The components which use the GPL license do already include copies of the license -- e.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/Rmath/blob/master/COPYING. I believe this is true for the other GPL components as well (readline, FFTW, patchelf). On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Hans W Borchers wrote: > Than

Re: [julia-users] General Licensing Question

Thanks for the pointer to the discussion on Hacker News. I have to admit I prefer GPL over BSD or MIT. But I can live with an MIT license if necessary. I always thought it necessary to add a version of the original GPL license -- or at least a link to it -- to software distributed under GPL. In

Re: [julia-users] General Licensing Question

John's answer is spot on. I recently wrote this post on hacker news summarizing my view on choosing open source licenses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7026627 > On Jan 26, 2014, at 5:36 PM, John Myles White > wrote: > > Hi Hans, > > (1) The GPL makes it impossible for users of Julia

Re: [julia-users] General Licensing Question

Hi Hans, (1) The GPL makes it impossible for users of Julia to embed Julia as part of a closed source product. We’d prefer not to impose that restriction. The BSD and MIT licenses are largely identical: the major difference is that the BSD license comes in several flavors, not all of which are

[julia-users] General Licensing Question

In the file DISTRIBUTING.md I read the following lines: Note that while the code for Julia is [MIT-licensed](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md), the distribution created by the techniques described herein will be GPL licensed, as various dependent libraries