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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

GPL will require GPL for any form compiler using UFL (which is fine
for FFC which is already GPL).

On the other hand, one could argue that the GPL license of the form
compiler does not affect DOLFIN (or any other applications using
DOLFIN) as long as it is just used as a compiler: input UFL, output
UFC, same as GCC does not dictate the license on code it generates.

So the question is, does GPL on UFL mean that DOLFIN (and thus
applications using it) need to be GPL?

I love the GPL (surpise) but there has been interest (of course) to
let DOLFIN be LGPL.

-- 
Anders


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:26:53AM +0100, UFL wrote:
> One or more new changesets pushed to the primary ufl repository.
> A short summary of the last three changesets is included below.
> 
> changeset:   417:df85f19803b64128322c3085a9847b500bfa0b97
> tag:         tip
> user:        "Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>"
> date:        Tue Nov 18 10:26:56 2008 +0100
> files:       LICENCE ROADMAP
> description:
> Added GPLv3 licence file.
> 
> Are there any reasons we have to use LGPL in the future?
> I guess UFL being GPL infects many other fenics projects.
> Until UFL is required by other FEniCS projects, it doesn't
> matter.
> 
> 
> changeset:   416:4496102b798fd77241f57815c7c74ec7ce1c024b
> user:        "Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>"
> date:        Tue Nov 18 09:57:22 2008 +0100
> files:       ufl/algorithms/dependencies.py ufl/algorithms/transformations.py
> description:
> Added variable traversal and cache to replace algorithm.
> 
> 
> changeset:   415:fa9239baa61ad94f31cadcb2e7f5f841c8047119
> user:        "Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>"
> date:        Mon Nov 17 23:05:10 2008 +0100
> files:       sandbox/latextest.py sandbox/tensortest.py sandbox/test_hyperelasticity.py sandbox/u2l.py sandbox/ufl-script-params.py ufl/algorithms/dependencies.py
> description:
> Fixed variables being duplicated on stacks in split_by_dependencies.
> 
> Added ufl-script-params.py using optparse, to be used to
> merge scripts like ufl-analyse, ufl2latex etc. into one,
> with more flexible usage options.
> 
> Added some local sandbox test files (nothing to see).
> 
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> For more details, visit http://www.fenics.org/hg/ufl

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