Hello all, Recent sympy user here. Need advice on license issues. I am thinking of writing a library with much in common with sympy but the plan is nowhere near complete at the moment. What I would like to know more about is the implications of sympy license. I am thinking of indiscriminately copying the sympy codebase when and where I need it. If I read the license correctly, that should be fine if I license my code under BSD as well. But the problem is, I think I like GPL more for my purpose. I do not understand the subtlety involved in deciding between GPLv2 and GPLv3, but let's say I go for GLPv3.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Compatibility_and_multi-licensing) seems to suggest that it is okay for me to release my code under GPLv3 (since sympy is BSD-3), but I would appreciate guidance regarding where not to go overboard with this. For the sake of argument, can I just fork sympy and just change the license to GPLv3? Does not seem quite right to me. Also, acknowledgements. Let's say I appropriate a sizable part of sympy (as I intend to). And maybe I have a file called AUTHORS. I think BSD-3 says that I do not put the names in AUTHORS in the sympy tree in it. I will of course acknowledge the heavy reliance on sympy in the documentation and elsewhere, but is there anything more I should do to give credit to individuals? End of questions. Just a bit more on what I am trying to do just in case. I am not currently interested in all the sympy modules but just the core. My primary goal I think is to experiment with a more simplified representation of expressions at the expense of usability so that I can provide more control over the generation of LaTeX code. Thanks in advance and thanks for this awesome program. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/9cf26a4a-c748-41f3-975c-5b5722e17c83%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
