[SciPy-Dev] Loess license

[Stephan Hoyer]

So unfortunately, R is GPL licensed. These new contributions don't have a
specific license attached, but arguably as new contributions they are
actually licensed under GPL, not the original license. I'm not a lawyer,
but I think the safest path forward would be to contact the original
authors of the R patch and ask if they are willing to relicense it as BSD.

Best,
Stephan

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Hassan Kibirige <has2k1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am resurrecting the loess code that was part of the deleted
> `scipy.sandbox`
> sub-package. It turns out that R uses the same core fortran code as it was
> published under a permissive licence (BSD-3 spirit) [1].
>
> The issue is, there are patches [2] that have been submitted to R and not
> to
> the upstream source [3]. The code in R still carries the permissive
> upstream
> licence [4]. Is it okay to adopt those changes?
>
> [1] http://git.io/vlpfV
> [2] http://git.io/vlpvF
> [3] http://netlib.org/a/loess
> [4] http://git.io/vlxj7
>
>
> Hassan
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