A Monday 25 May 2009 00:31:43 David Warde-Farley escrigué: > As Robert's design document for the NPY format says, one option would > be to implement a minimal subset of the HDF5 protocol *from scratch* > (that would be required for saving NumPy arrays as top-level leaf > nodes, for example). This would also sidestep any tricky licensing > issues (I don't know what the HDF5 license is in particular, I know > it's fairly permissive but still might not be suitable for including > any of it in NumPy).
The license for HDF5 is BSD-based and apparently permissive enough, as can be seen in: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Copyright.html The problem is to select such a desired minimal protocol subset. In addition, this implementation may require quite a bit of work (but I've never had an in- deep look at the guts of the HDF5 library, so I may be wrong). Cheers, -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
