Just make it LGPL. Nobody will use it without at least one of ffc or dolfin
anyway.

Martin


On 19 February 2014 10:28, Nico Schlömer <[email protected]> wrote:

> > - How do we handle licenses? UFC is public domain, but FFC is LGPL.
> >   Should we still keep UFC as public domain?
>
> Note that "public domain" is not a license
> <http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6225> and that having no license
> on code may be harmful <http://choosealicense.com/no-license/>.
>
> --Nico
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:15:51PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:57:02PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
> >> > I'm about to start merging UFC into FFC (today or tomorrow, depending
> >> > on how smooth the process is).
> >> >
> >> > Should this be pushed into next or master? I'm inclined to push this
> >> > into master directly since the buildbots will need to be reconfigured
> >> > anyway (I assume, to remove UFC).
> >>
> >> This seemed to go smooth. I have merged UFC into my local FFC/master
> >> using this recipe:
> >>
> >>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683531/how-to-import-existing-git-repository-into-another
> >>
> >> I still need to manually merge ChangeLog and other common files (but
> >> history for both is intact), but if there are no strong objections, I
> >> plan to push these changes to master for both UFC and FFC once things
> >> are running smoothly here.
> >
> > Merge is mostly done now. The following issues remain:
> >
> > - Merging of contents under doc/. Is the UFC manual still relevant?
> >   How should it be merged with the FFC documentation?
> >
> > - How do we handle licenses? UFC is public domain, but FFC is LGPL.
> >   Should we still keep UFC as public domain? My suggestion would be
> >   to keep ufc.h, ufc_geometry.h (and other UFC header files if we add
> >   them) as public domain, but make everything else (utils) LGPL.
> >
> > - Merging of setup.py. This is a technical issue and should be
> >   relatively straighforward.
> >
> > Feedback wanted on the first two issues.
> >
> > --
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