Re: [Matplotlib-users] pick event for images

[Daniele N. <da...@gr...>]

On 02/11/2013 19:07, Joe Kington wrote:
> Hi Daniele,
> 
> First off, the FSF uses and endorses a number of non GPL licenses.  They
> reccomend the Apache license over MIT-style licenses for permissive
> cases due to patent issues, but they don't require it.  In fact, even
> the GNU project has several X11 (the FSF's name for the MIT license)
> licensed projects (e.g. Off the top of my head, I know ncurses is both
> an official GNU project and is X11-licensed.).

Thank for the info.  I knew that the FSF endorses a number of different
licenses, but I was under the impression that the only projects for
which copyright transfer was in place were under the GPL or LGPL
license.  I don't know if it makes much sense for other, more
permissive, licenses.

> However, I'm glad you brought this up.  I haven't actually filled out a
> copyright transfer form to the FSF.  I intended to at one point, but
> never did and didn't think about the copyright assignment in the license
> header very much. Not doing so, and leaving copyright in the name of any
> potential contributors actually makes things quite a bit simpler.

Indeed. I believe going the burden of copyright transfer makes sense
only for major projects under copyleft licenses.

Cheers,
Daniele