On 06/01/16 17:14, Ralph Castain wrote: > Simple reason, Chris - the PMI support is GPL 2.0, and so anything > built against it automatically becomes GPL.
My understanding is that's only the case if the only implementation(s) is/are under the GPL. If there is a BSD implementation (for instance) then other code that uses it is not a derivative work of a GPL application. For example that's apparently why the fgmp library was created as a BSD version of the GNU GMP library: https://lwn.net/Articles/548576/ All the best, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci
