GPL-3.0 License

[bjlittle]

@tkoyama010 Is there a specific reason why you've chosen to distribute scikit-gmsh under a GPL-3.0 license?

This might not be attractive to some users who would prefer a more permissive option such as Apache-2.0, BSD-3-Clause or MIT.

Just curious, thanks 😄

[tkoyama010]

Good question. It is because Gmsh is GPL-3.0 license.

Linking a GPL covered work statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on the GPL covered work. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. See also What legal issues come up if I use GPL-incompatible libraries with GPL software?

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic

This is also the reason why this library is separated from the rest of the PyVista ecosystem. It seems that pygmsh also follows this and is licensed under the GPL.