ScanPy's BSD license and GPLed dependencies
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Description
Hello there,
Thank you for the great work you're doing building ScanPy!
I am currently learning about open-source licenses and the intricacies of copyright. Especially regarding management of GPL dependencies and when the viral copyleft clause is triggerred or not.
It looks like the ScanPy team explored this question already as the projet is licensed under BSD while it is leveraging GPLed dependencies like leidenalg, python-igraph or louvain.
Understanding how you handled this question would greatly help me, could you tell me?
Maybe there are discussions recorded somewhere?
Best,
Fabien
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the issue text and review the referenced dependencies: leidenalg, python-igraph, and louvain. Look for existing project discussions or documentation about ScanPy's BSD license and GPLed dependencies; the issue is complete only when that explanation or its location is documented.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100