Yes, because they're distributing source. But *our* license file could contain the text of the BSD, the text of the MPL, and the text "Eigen source is available at http://eigen.org.";
If the only problem with eigen turns out to be that we have to add a line of text to a file then I think we can probably manage this somehow. -n On 28 Mar 2014 20:40, "Robert Kern" <[email protected]> wrote: > No, the license does not contain a pointer to the Eigen sources, which is > required. > > > https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/src/fabd880592ac3343713cc07e7287098afd0f18ca/COPYING.MPL2?at=default > On Mar 28, 2014 7:34 PM, "Nathaniel Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 28 Mar 2014 20:26, "Robert Kern" <[email protected]> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> >> > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
_______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
