On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 29, 8:29 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Since cvxopt is GPLV3+ according to >> >> http://abel.ee.ucla.edu/cvxopt/copyright.html >> >> OpenOpt can't legally be BSD licensed. > > Why not? From what I know, cvxopt has to be installed separately, not > a part of openopt. >
OpenOpt depends on cvxopt for its functionality -- you can't even import some of the files in OpenOpt without having Cvxopt. It is thus a derived work. The GPL license applies to all derived works of GPL'd programs. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
