There is also a cholmod wrapper in cvxopt.  Not sure what the license
on that is... or what it has to do with scipy exactly.  Just fyi.

http://abel.ee.ucla.edu/cvxopt/userguide/spsolvers.html#positive-definite-linear-equations

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@[...].com>  wrote:
>  On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 15:28, Gael Varoquaux
>  <gael.varoquaux@[...].org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:25:12PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 
> >> CHOLMOD is GPLed, so I suppose my wrapper must be as well, and is thus
> >> unsuitable for inclusion in Scipy proper -- though scipy.sparse
> >> already has a wrapper for the GPLed UMFPACK, so I guess I might be
> >> wrong?
> 
>  No, you're right. The UMFPACK support there has always been optional.
>  However, we don't want to add more optional components into scipy and
>  have been pushing this one out to scikits.umfpack.
> 
> > I would put the code in BSD, just to make it clear that people are
> > welcomed to derive work for the code in BSD license, but I would make it
> > clear that the package itself is contaminated.
> 
>  I'd probably go the other way. Make it GPLed, but add a note that you
>  will relicense your parts of the code on request. Having wrappers with
>  a different license than the library itself is usually just confusing
>  for very little benefit. The code in the wrapper itself is usually not
>  very interesting.
> 
>  --
>  Robert Kern
> 
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>  enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
>  though it had an underlying truth."
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