Dear FEniCS enthusiasts, I am going to reiterate a concern that I tried to bring up earlier regarding the copyright consent forms. Please chime in with your views.
I understand the rationale behind using LGPL for core FEniCS components (e.g. DOLFIN and FFC). It makes sense to me that these projects could form a part of future (potentially proprietary) applications. The developers of such applications clearly have to bring in a lot of domain-specific knowledge. I can see why they might want to keep such knowledge proprietary, and I can see how moving to LGPL brings them into the community at least as users of FEniCS. But the same logic doesn't hold (in my mind) for FEniCS Apps. Some of these function reasonably well and are already capable of solving select domain-specific problems. Aren't they, in a sense, closer to complete, immediately useful applications? Given this, does it make sense that they too should be released under LGPL? What is then to prevent someone from, say, slapping a GUI on a well-functioning solver and selling it as a tool? Harish _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
