Bug#379388: License of pgapack

2008-01-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/11/07 at 17:24 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 5 November 2007 at 19:25, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | Has there been any progress on this since your phone call? Very much so -- full agreement in principle by all parties to release under the MPICH2 license (which is

Bug#379388: License of pgapack

2008-01-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 January 2008 at 16:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | On 05/11/07 at 17:24 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 5 November 2007 at 19:25, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | | Hi Dirk, | | | | Has there been any progress on this since your phone call? | | Very much so -- full agreement in principle

Bug#379388: License of pgapack

2008-01-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 January 2008 at 16:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | On 05/11/07 at 17:24 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 5 November 2007 at 19:25, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | | Hi Dirk, | | | | Has there been any progress on this since your phone call? | | Very much so -- full agreement in principle

Bug#379388: License of pgapack

2007-11-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Dirk, Has there been any progress on this since your phone call? - Lucas On 06/10/06 at 15:39 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: As an update to bug report #379388, I just spent a few moments on the phone with Dr R Lusk, the acting director of the MCS division at Argonne National Labs

Bug#379388: License of pgapack

2007-11-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 November 2007 at 19:25, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | Has there been any progress on this since your phone call? Very much so -- full agreement in principle by all parties to release under the MPICH2 license (which is sweet and minimal). I had prepared one tarball fro everybody to

Bug#379388: License of pgapack

2006-10-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
As an update to bug report #379388, I just spent a few moments on the phone with Dr R Lusk, the acting director of the MCS division at Argonne National Labs where pgapack originates. Dr Lusk is sympathetic to getting pgapack relicensed and suggests the simpler MPICH2 license that was used for

Bug#379388: License of pgapack and Debian GNU/Linux

2006-08-20 Thread Andreas Franzen
Dear Mr Lusk, your public-genetic-algorithms library pgapack is since many years part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. It was found recently that the license of pgapack means that pgapack is not really free software. The license of pgapack restricts the selling of derivative works. The