Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:43:11 +1000 (EST) From: "Andrew Reilly" <reilly@zeta.org.au> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: malte.lance@gmx.net, reilly@zeta.org.au, jgrosch@mooseriver.com, shocking@prth.pgs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fast FFT routines with source? Message-ID: <19980803104312.21747.qmail@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <199808031006.DAA07412@usr09.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert said: >> > Be aware that the fftw code has a particularly curly licence. >> >> The GPL-v2 is included in the file ./COPYING >> >> So what's your point ? > > Unless you want to give away all your code, it'd be best to use > different code. > > If you don't mind giving away all your code, then no problem. > > If it were LGPL instead, it would be less of an issue, so long > as the code didn't need to go into the kernel, and you were > willing to distribute everything else as .o files to meet the > relink clause. It's not quite that bad, just not useful for BSD-style free software. The last time I read the doco they explained that they'd used this licence so that GPL's code could be written. Their intention was (is) to also offer a non-GPL'd version to those willing to pay a commercial licence fee. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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