Re: use of Python bindings to GPL library from within non-GPL Python toolkit

2008-09-27 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yaroslav Halchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Thank you Anthony for a detailed explanation, but I am still lacking a clear view here since you are talking about mixing-in GPL code within non-GPLed project, and in our case it is not quite the case: ATM all code in our

Re: use of Python bindings to GPL library from within non-GPL Python toolkit

2008-09-27 Thread Ben Finney
Anthony W. Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If it's external non-GPL, you can't change its licence. So *YOU* *CAN* mix it with both GPL and your own software. But you CAN'T then DISTRIBUTE the result. The GPL says you must distribute the non-GPL code as if it were GPL Not quite: the GPL

Re: use of Python bindings to GPL library from within non-GPL Python toolkit

2008-09-24 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Thank you Anthony for a detailed explanation, but I am still lacking a clear view here since you are talking about mixing-in GPL code within non-GPLed project, and in our case it is not quite the case: ATM all code in our project is non-GPLed, including some code which makes use of external GPL

Re: use of Python bindings to GPL library from within non-GPL Python toolkit

2008-09-20 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yaroslav Halchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Guys, I am sorry that I am following up on this dead thread I started long ago [1], and which Francesco was kind to follow up to. Now I've got another project to package and got the same issue, and I am not clear if I

Re: use of Python bindings to GPL library from within non-GPL Python toolkit

2008-09-17 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi Guys, I am sorry that I am following up on this dead thread I started long ago [1], and which Francesco was kind to follow up to. Now I've got another project to package and got the same issue, and I am not clear if I have the right understanding of GPL-compatibility. AFAIK it means that you

use of Python bindings to GPL library from within non-GPL Python toolkit

2008-04-02 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Legal People, I am one of the developers of PyMVPA toolbox [1], which we currently distribute under MIT License. It is written in Python and is actually a framework either to create scripts for the analysis or just perform analysis interactively within python (ipython) shell environment.

Re: use of Python bindings to GPL library from within non-GPL Python toolkit

2008-04-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:20:23 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Dear Legal People, I am one of the developers of PyMVPA toolbox [1], Interesting project. Thanks for developing it as free software! :) which we currently distribute under MIT License. Which is better named the Expat license,