Switch to a more permissive license? (e.g. BSD)
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Stan itself is licensed under the BSD license. Would it be possible to release rstan under the BSD license as well?
I ask because pystan inherited some code from rstan, and is therefore GPL.
If rstand was licensed as BSD, pystan could also be licensed as BSD.
Thanks a lot!
Zach
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