[SciPy-Dev] Loess license

[Hassan Kibirige]

I am not worried about the compiler warnings, (there are 4 according
to gcc-4.9.3). There are two key patches:

1. http://git.io/vlhNP
2. http://git.io/vlhNQ

I have not looked into the details of the problems they address however,
I think the 2nd stems from this issue.

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-March/052392.html

Hassan


On Wednesday 04 November 2015 8:53:54 PM Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
> This one ( http://git.io/vlh72 ) is still very much GPL with marking on
> every file. All the rest seem pretty minor (whitespace and edits from
> compiler warnings).
> 
> -- Andy
> 
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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