Wouldn't that put a license restriction on the generated code? It has been an important point that the generated code does not have any restrictions at all for its use/inclusion/linking.
-- Anders On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:00:30AM +0000, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > fenics mailing list > [email protected] > http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics > > _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
