On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Bruce Southey<bsout...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would think that you could just provide an appropriately licensed package > that combines a separately downloaded numpy/scipy with the separately > downloaded/installed gfortran to install the new version of numpy/scipy. That's exactly what I would like to avoid :) That's a lot of work, just for a couple of functions. > Essentially the same way you get non-free software like mp3 decoders for > certain Linux distros. If that works, then perhaps a clean room > implementation and rewrite of certain fortran code could be done to remove > the gfortran dependencies. As mentioned by Robert, the runtimes (both libgcc and libgfortran), although under the GPL, have an exception so that linking against them do not force you to release the resulting code under the GPL terms. Up to now, numpy on windows and mac os x was built with gcc and have dependency with those runtimes. What is not clear to me is whether static or dynamic linking makes a difference (I did not think about this when building recent mac os x binaries with libgfortran linked statically). IOW, the only real difference is that I would like to include some sources under the GPLv3 (with the GCC exception) in numpy/scipy, sources which would only be used in the cases where we would have to link against code under the same license anyway. David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
