Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 15.01.2016 10:05, Mark Dickinson wrote: > > Mark Dickinson added the comment: > > ... and the way I read it, the NR licence applies specifically to their code, > not to the basic numerical ideas set out in the text (which is all we're > using). We're not using the actual code from NR at all. > > IOW, IANAL but I really don't think there's an issue here.
The license is a copyright license, so it only applies to the actual code from the book. The ideas would have to be patented to be protected. Copyright in some code or text is not enough to (potentially) prevent someone else from reusing the ideas. If someone is aware of a patent on the algorithm, we may have an issue. Otherwise, there's no issue if we're using Mark's implementation. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26114> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
