Re: [Matplotlib-users] Embedding matplotlib in Tkinter Applications

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Alan G Isaac <ala...@gm...> wrote:
> On 2/24/2010 2:36 AM, Friedrich Romstedt wrote:
>>  Can you explain to me why you are so restrictive about GPLed code?  I
>>  mean, it's all OSS?
>
>
> The licenses are very different: BSD (and MIT) do not impose a viral
> copyleft.  This is why Python is not GPL, nor is NumPy or Matplotlib.
> People writing code under BSD-like licenses must carefully avoid viral
> infection from GPL'd code.
>
> Second, while John Hunter's views are not identical to mine

Nor mine <wink>.  I would say several things differently today -- here
is the version I wrote for the mpl docs:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/coding_guide.html#why-bsd-compatible

JDH