From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 3 03:44:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA04274 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 03:44:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.15.68.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA04261 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 03:44:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reilly@zeta.org.au) Received: from zeta.org.au (d22.syd2.zeta.org.au [203.26.11.22]) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA28803 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:43:53 +1000 Received: (qmail 21748 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Aug 1998 10:43:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19980803104312.21747.qmail@gurney.reilly.home> From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:43:11 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: Fast FFT routines with source? To: tlambert@primenet.com cc: malte.lance@gmx.net, reilly@zeta.org.au, jgrosch@mooseriver.com, shocking@prth.pgs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808031006.DAA07412@usr09.primenet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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