[Neurodebian-upstream] newbie

[Samuel GARCIA]

So what I wrote on OE website is just nonsensical.
And using CeCill B is also wrong from the beginning.
No ?



On 23/09/2010 18:29, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Argh! Now I had to subscribe to yet another list, since I started
> dropping out of the conversation.
>
> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 15:20 +0200, Samuel GARCIA wrote:
>    
>> I don't remember exactly but I think it was CeCill B because I was
>> using QT4 and at the time I started OE QT4 was GPL.
>>      
> Ok, to make it clear, there are 3 current CeCill licences:
>
> 1) CeCill v2<->  ~ GPL-like (modifications can be licensed under GPL)
> 2) CeCill-B<->  ~ Old BSD (modifications can be licensed under GPL) [*]
> 3) CeCill-C<->  ~ LGPL-like (modifications can be licensed under GPL)
>
> [*] CeCill-B licensed software can be modified and distributed under
> CeCill, and then modified and re-licenced under GPL.
>
> This basically means that the "worst-case" obligations for all of them
> are those of GPL.
>
> ---
>
> Now let me clear something up: the claims of being "compatible" is not
> what you think it is.
>
> The statement "CeCill-B is GPL-compatible" means, that if you are
> writing a program under GPL, you can freely re-use CeCill-B code and
> re-licence subsequently under CeCill and then GPL.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatIsCompatible
>
> That is, it does NOT mean, that you can use GPL code in your CeCill-B
> program, UNLESS you distribute the result under GPL.
>
> ---
>
> Below is the list of licences of the software you depend upon.
>
> You are right, that QT4 is LGPL now, BUT PyQT4 is only available under
> GPL, so the whole user interface using PyQT4 should be GPL-ed. Whether
> it means that you can still use any CeCill licence at all, is an
> ambiguous legal question, but the most probably, the answer is NO.
>
> The rest, I guess, can be legally dual-licensed under CeCill-B /
> 3-Clause BSD.
>
> In what concerns BSD licences, be sure to mention a 3-clause license
> ("New BSD License") explicitly, not the old one. The old one contains an
> advertising clause (which the authors of CeCill-B retained for whatever
> stupid reason), which means that it's GPL-incompatible.
>
> ---
>
>
>    
>>                  Python 2.6
>>      
>      * Doesn't have licence implications
>
>    
>>                  Qt4
>>      
>      * LGPL
>
>    
>>                  Python Qt4
>>      
>      * GPL only
>
>    
>>                  Python MySQLdb
>>      
>      * GPL or Python (no implications)
>
>    
>>                  Python SQLite
>>      
>      * Python (no implications)
>
>    
>>                  Python sqlalchemy
>>                  Python sqlalchemy-migrate
>>      
>      * MIT
>
>    
>>                  Python numpy
>>                  Python scipy
>>      
>      * 3-clause BSD
>
>    
>>                  Python matplotlib
>>      
>      * Python (no implications)
>
>    
>>                  Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP)
>>      
>      * LGPL
>
>
>    

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