On 17/02/11 10:27, Harish Narayanan wrote: > 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? >
I'm not sure what you're advocating. That FEniCS Apps should be GPL? Garth > Harish > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
