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HOPE: A Python Just-In-Time compiler for astrophysical computations
GNU General Public License v3.0
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GPL issue #34

Closed carlkl closed 8 years ago

carlkl commented 9 years ago

Is it possible to relax the license to a MIT or BSD like license - at least for the runtime code that is included into the users python programm and extensions?

cosmo-ethz commented 9 years ago

I’ll check with the co-authors to see what they think and as soon as I know more I’ll get back to you.

cosmo-ethz commented 9 years ago

@carlkl, Since HOPE has been developed at a publicly funded university we think that GPL is an adequate choice for the licensing. Or could you provide me a good reason why MIT or BSD would be better?

carlkl commented 9 years ago

@cosmo-ethz https://github.com/cosmo-ethz , the complete scipy-stack is based on opensource code without copyleft licenses. The liberal license is one of the attractions of Python anyway. HOPE could be a potential sucessor of scipy-weave IMHO. I got the hope, that at least the generated code could be distributed without copyleft.

2015-01-20 10:47 GMT+01:00 cosmo-ethz notifications@github.com:

@carlkl https://github.com/carlkl, Since HOPE has been developed at a publicly funded university we think that GPL is an adequate choice for the licensing. Or could you provide me a good reason why MIT or BSD would be better?

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cosmo-ethz commented 9 years ago

@carlkl Afaik, data that is produced with a certain software does normally not underlie the license of this software. In the case of HOPE, the code that is generated during the JIT compilation could be seen as data. Hence, it would not be under GPL.

carlkl commented 9 years ago

@cosmo-ethz https://github.com/cosmo-ethz, there is some more code from the hope package, that is incorporated into users code base during code generation and depoyment. This should be considered as well.

2015-01-23 15:46 GMT+01:00 cosmo-ethz notifications@github.com:

@carlkl https://github.com/carlkl Afaik, data that is produced with a certain software does normally not underlie the license of this software. In the case of HOPE, the code that is generated during the JIT compilation could be seen as data. Hence, it would not be under GPL.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/cosmo-ethz/hope/issues/34#issuecomment-71202988.