Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] License, freetype

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

Chad,

My recollections is that matplotlib doesn't distribute the source code to
FreeType, it only uses it as a dependency. As such, MPL is in the clear
with its more permissive licensing.
-Paul

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:45 PM, CAB <ca...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi, All,
>
> I just went to install matplotlib version 2.0.0, and it has a dependency
> called "freetype". This software appears to be licensed under GPL3.  My
> reading of that latter license is that, if someone wanted to distribute a
> compiled version of a program requiring matplotlib, that entire program
> would fall under the GPL3 license.  I'm sure that would be a non-starter
> for many, many projects.
>
> Does anyone have any takes on this?
>
> Chad
>
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