[Swift-devel] GPL licensing question

[Ian Foster]

David:

We need to be very careful about including any GPL-licensed code in Swift, as that will make all Swift code GPL. Steve Tuecke can provide more specifics.

Ian.

On Aug 20, 2010, at 11:35 AM, David Kelly wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My swiftconfig and swiftrun utilities use a module called XML::Simple. It is not included in most standard perl distributions. I would like to include it so users do not have to manually install modules. Perl modules are licensed by the same terms as perl itself - which is the GNU General Public License version 1 (or later at your discretion), or the "artistic license" (http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html). My understanding is that all Globus projects are required to be under an Apache license.
> 
> I would like to add swiftconfig, swiftrun and associated libraries to the main swift distribution. Can I safely do this without running into any licensing conflicts?
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
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