alt Hacker News> FireDucks is not a open source library at this moment. You can get it installed freely using pip and use under BSD-3 license and of course can look into the python part of the source code.
I don't understand what it means. It looks like a contradiction. Does it have a BSD-3 licence or not?
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_flux • 11/20/2024
They provide BSD-3-licensed Python files but the interesting bit happens in the shared object library, which is only provided in binary form (but is also BSD-3-licensed it seems, so you can distribute it freely).
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sampo • 11/20/2024
BSD license gives you the permission to use and to redistribute. In this case you may use and redistribute the binaries.
Edit: To use, redistribute, and modify, and distribute modified versions.
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From the above link:
> While the wheel packages are available at https://pypi.org/project/fireducks/#files, and while they do contain Python files, most of the magic happens inside a (BSD-3-licensed) shared object library, for which source code is not provided.