[Neuroimaging] [Nipype] changing the license of Nipype from BSD to Apache 2

[Nathaniel Smith]

Apache 2 and GPL 2 are incompatible, so you risk reducing how many people
can use your code.

Some projects dual license under BSD and Apache 2, because they want to
offer BSD terms to the world, but they want to ask contributors to make the
patent guarantees required by Apache 2.

Actually making license changes generally requires tracking down every
person who's ever contributed a patch and getting them to sign off on it.
Maybe you don't need that for this case given the particular licenses;
you'd need to check with an OSS lawyer if you wanted to try something more
clever.

-n
On Nov 15, 2015 10:40 AM, "Satrajit Ghosh" <satra at mit.edu> wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i had a question last week about Nipype's license (an area i don't
> understand well) and i was told that the BSD license can be restrictive in
> a software patenting sense. here is one post i found that describes the
> differences, and the legal differences have to do with software patents,
> something that didn't exist when the original BSD/MIT style licenses were
> crafted.
>
> https://www.chef.io/blog/2009/08/11/why-we-chose-the-apache-license/
>
> i would like to ask this community for guidance on the issue or pointers
> to people who can provide guidance.
>
> if there doesn't seem to be any major roadblocks and apache 2 offers some
> advantages over BSD, i'm inclined to adopt it. the change seems quite
> straightforward, but before we embrace it, i would like to get a better
> handle.
>
> cheers,
>
> satra
>
>
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