[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-15 Thread Robert Kern
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 18:07, Kirill Smelkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EPD can ship LGPL > - I'm not sure who is telling you that we can't. It's just not true. We can and do ship LGPL and some GPLed packages. As a rule, we do prefer BSD-licensed packages, though. > I think _

[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-16 Thread Kirill Smelkov
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:15:53PM -0600, Robert Kern wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 18:07, Kirill Smelkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > EPD can ship LGPL > > - > > I'm not sure who is telling you that we can't. It's just not true. We > can and do ship LGPL and some GPLed

[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-16 Thread William stein
On Nov 15, 5:15 pm, "Robert Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 18:07, Kirill Smelkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > EPD can ship LGPL > > - > > I'm not sure who is telling you that we can't. It's just not true. We > can and do ship LGPL and some GPLed pack

[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-16 Thread Robert Kern
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:39, William stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 15, 5:15 pm, "Robert Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 18:07, Kirill Smelkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > EPD can ship LGPL >> > - >> >> I'm not sure who is telling you t

[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-16 Thread Vinzent Steinberg
On 16 Nov., 01:07, Kirill Smelkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, Wine is a good example. There is another example: KHTML. They are using LGPL and were forked by Apple. There were patches from Apple, but they could not be integrated because they were too big and to Mac-specific. Years later the

[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-16 Thread Riccardo Gori
On Sunday 16 November 2008 20:20:22 Vinzent Steinberg wrote: > On 16 Nov., 01:07, Kirill Smelkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, Wine is a good example. > > There is another example: KHTML. They are using LGPL and were forked > by Apple. There were patches from Apple, but they could not be > i

[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-16 Thread Sebastian Haase
Hi all, I'm not a sympy developer. I am working for many years with numpy and have recently registered a google code project based in this. I wanted to say that the BSD license seemed fine with we me for a long time. But in general I would like to say that LGPL has some "felling" to it that I oft

[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-16 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:45:31PM +0100, Sebastian Haase wrote: > Could someone please summarize (again) the risks and/or disadvantages of LGPL > from a COMPANY POINT OF VIEW !? Have you actually talked to companies? I know, it sounds stupid, and irrantional, and I can't even repeat the argument

[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-16 Thread Brian Granger
Sure, for the past two years I worked in a commercial R and D company. The company writes proprietary code for high performance computing and computational physics. However, the company also collaborates with dozens of open source projects. Here is a short summary of their perspective (this is

[sympy] Re: Yes, SymPy should be LGPL! (please help)

2008-11-17 Thread Vinzent Steinberg
On Nov 16, 10:09 pm, Riccardo Gori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2008 20:20:22 Vinzent Steinberg wrote: > > > On 16 Nov., 01:07, Kirill Smelkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, Wine is a good example. > > > There is another example: KHTML. They are using LGPL and were f