On 2/24/2010 2:36 AM, Friedrich Romstedt wrote: > Can you explain to me why you are so restrictive about GPLed code? I > mean, it's all OSS?
The licenses are very different: BSD (and MIT) do not impose a viral copyleft. This is why Python is not GPL, nor is NumPy or Matplotlib. People writing code under BSD-like licenses must carefully avoid viral infection from GPL'd code. Second, while John Hunter's views are not identical to mine, he makes a collection of important points about licensing here: http://neuroimaging.scipy.org/site/doc/manual/html/faq/johns_bsd_pitch.html I'm going to treat John's note as enough of an answer to your question unless you want more discussion. Naturally, since you wrote the code, you get to choose the license, and your choice is obviously none of my business. Hopefully that goes without saying, but I'll say it to avoid misunderstanding. > Did you notice that it is not an example but an independent standalone > package? I'm not shure about this because you always talk about > "example". But maybe the summary is way too long, though ... Since you posted this on Matplotlib, I assumed you wanted people to be able to look at how you did it, not just use it. I am not diminishing the application by saying it looks to be a nice example of how to embded Matplotlib in Tk. If it were BSD-licensed I would probably get around to looking at your code. Alan Isaac ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
