We could use the BSD or MIT licence.

Martin


On 19 February 2014 11:05, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> >     >
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