I don't have anything to contribute to the topic of licenses and such but 
how would you bundle a python library in an android app?

On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:15:20 PM UTC-6, Ondřej Čertík wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Ambar Mehrotra <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Thanks Ondrej. 
> > 
> > But I am still in doubt about the name, because Joachim said(above) that 
> it 
> > will be illegal to use the name. 
>
> As to the name, the license says: 
>
>   c. Neither the name of SymPy nor the names of its contributors 
>      may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 
>      without specific prior written permission. 
>
> so you can mention the name in the About page or in other documents to 
> your commercial program or on the page in Google Play. 
> But you should not use the name of SymPy to endorse your program, or 
> to promote your code if it was derived from SymPy --- i.e. if you 
> improve the sympy integrator (by modifying sympy sources), and start 
> selling (only) the binary, you should not call it SymPy. 
>
> Let me know if you have further questions. Post a link to your 
> program, once you have it, I would be interested to see. 
>
> Ondrej 
>
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Ondřej Čertík <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> 
> > wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Hi Ambar, 
> >> 
> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Ambar Mehrotra <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> 
> >> wrote: 
> >> > Hi, 
> >> > 
> >> > I am working on a proprietary android app that uses sympy for 
> >> > computation purposes.  We are planning to use sympy in the name of 
> the app. 
> >> > What are the legal implications that I have to take care of to do 
> this? Is 
> >> > it enough if I mention the sympy BSD licence in the app? 
> >> 
> >> Awesome. Yes, you can do what Google is doing, e.g. in the Google+ 
> >> app, if you go to Settings -> About Google+ -> Open source licenses, 
> >> there is a long list of projects that it uses and their licenses. So 
> >> you just copy & paste the sympy license in there. 
> >> 
> >> Ondrej 
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