[SciPy-user] License issue

[Alan G Isaac]

>>> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:04:51PM +0200, Nils Wagner 
>>> wrote: 
>>>> Is the Common Public License (CPL) compatible with scipy ? 


>> On Sat, 5 May 2007, Stefan van der Walt apparently wrote: 
>>> No, it's not a BSD compatible license.  Also see 


> Alan G Isaac wrote: 
>> In what sense? 


On Sat, 05 May 2007, Robert Kern apparently wrote: 
> In these sense that CPL-licensed code will not be included into the main scipy 
> package because of our policies with respect to licenses. 


Well OK, that's just a policy statement.

Of course my real question is: what is wrong with this 
license?  (Real question; not an assertion that nothing is.)
It seems only to make explicit things that are left implicit 
in the modified BSD license.

And just to be clear, I believe you are not saying that it 
would be inappropriate for a SciKit.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac