[Swift-devel] GPL licensing question

[Michael Wilde]

Ive had an off-list thread going with Steve on this topic, and earlier today posed the question of whether Artistic License code can be included in Swift.

- Mike

----- "Ian Foster" <foster at anl.gov> wrote:

> 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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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory