On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Jun 24, 2017 7:29 AM, "Sylvain Corlay" <sylvain.cor...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Also, one quick question: is the LGPL license a deliberate choice or is it
> not important to you? Most projects in the Python scientific stack are BSD
> licensed. So the LGPL choice makes it unlikely that a higher-level project
> adopts it as a dependency. If you are the only copyright holder, you would
> still have the possibility to license it under a more permissive license
> such as BSD or MIT...
>
>
> Why would LGPL be a problem in a dependency? That doesn't stop you making
> your code BSD, and it's less restrictive license-wise than depending on MKL
> or the windows C runtime...
>

Is scipy still including any LGPL code, I thought not.
There might still be some optional dependencies that not many users are
using by default. ?
Julia packages are mostly MIT, AFAIK. (except for the GPL parts because of
cholmod, which we (?) avoid)

Josef


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