LIcenses [Re: A Maxima function for solving initial value problems with adaptive step size and error control.]
Subject: LIcenses [Re: A Maxima function for solving initial value problems with adaptive step size and error control.]
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:56:42 -0700
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:
> On 10/25/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But for the record, anything that I have placed in src (like my elliptic
> > functions code), is GPL. Anything that I have done in share is under
> some
> > license that I haven't decided on. Possibly public domain or BSD, or
> LGPL.
>
> Um, in the interest of making life easier for those who wish to make
> use of those files, I hope you will put some definite copyright & license
> statement on them.
>
>
Yes, I will do that soon.
> > Note that f2cl-lib and the code generated by f2cl is under some license.
> I
> > think it's LGPL, but I'll have to look that up.
>
> Code generated by a translator or compiler is a derivative of the original
> source code. I don't see how the author of the translator could impose a
> license on the translated code.
>
Perhaps, but I vaguely remember that the bison-generated code used to be
under GPL license, partly because it was not usable without the other parts
of bison. I think this was clarified some time ago so that the generated
code is not under the GPL.
Ray