Re: License of matrix_invert.c and eigen.c in Python Cogent
Hi Ziheng,
that's very great. Thanks for your very welcome help.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:21:54AM +0100, Ziheng Yang wrote:
> Dear Andres,
> What you suggest is fine with me. You can distribute the two files under
> GPL-2.
> Best,
> Ziheng
>
>
>
> At 22:38 28/02/2011 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hi Ziheng,
>>
>> I'm contacting you on behalf of the Debian Med team which has the goal
>> to assemble interesting bio-medical software inside the Debian GNU/Linux
>> distribution. We just packaged Python Cogent[1] for Debian because this
>> is highly relevant for our project itself and several other packages
>> will depend from this.
>>
>> While most of the code of Python Cogent is licensed under GPL-2 there are
>> just two files
>> cogent/maths/matrix_invert.c
>> ogent/maths/eigen.c (partly)
>> which are covered by your copyright and are provided under an academia
>> only license.
>>
>> According the copyright of the Debian package in June 2010 you was
>> contacted by Sri Girish Srinivasa Murthy about the license to distribute
>> these files in the Debian GNU Linux package and you gave permission
>> under the restricted license.
>>
>> As a consequence of this the python-cogent package in Debian has to be
>> considered non-free according the Debian Free Software Guidelines and
>> every other package depending from it is also not allowed to make it
>> into the main Debian distribution but only in what we call "contrib".
>> So your decision about the license of these two files becomes quite
>> hindering for some of our target packages.
>>
>> I wonder whether you would consider to dual license these two files.
>> This would leave the license of your main project PAML untouched but
>> would be really helpful regarding several of our projects.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>> [1] http://pycogent.sorceforge.net
>>
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