On 28 Mar 2014 20:26, "Robert Kern" <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's only a problem in that the binary will not be BSD, and we do need to
communicate that appropriately. It will contain a significant component
that is MPL2 licensed. The terms that force us to include the link to the
Eigen source that we used forces downstream redistributors of the binary to
do the same. Now, of all the copyleft licenses, this is certainly the most
friendly, but it is not BSD.

AFAICT, the only way redistributers could violate the MPL would be if they
unpacked our binary and deleted the license file. But this would also be a
violation of the BSD. The only difference in terms of requirements on
redistributors between MPL and BSD seems to be exactly *which* text you
include in your license file.

I don't know if Eigen is a good choice on technical grounds (or even a
possible one - has anyone ever actually compiled numpy against it?), but
this license thing just doesn't seem like an important issue to me, if the
alternative is not providing useful binaries.

-n
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