On 17/02/11 11:16, Harish Narayanan wrote: > On 2/17/11 12:11 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote: >> >> >> On 17/02/11 11:08, Harish Narayanan wrote: >>> On 2/17/11 11:56 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> 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? >>> >>> Yes, or at least be left to the developer's choice. I am not keen on >>> past contributions to FEniCS Apps under GPL now suddenly being >>> transferred to LGPL. >>> >> >> I'm perfectly happy with FEniCS Apps developers choosing for themselves >> between GPL and LGPL. I thought that this was the present situation? > > That is not what the text of the copyright consent form suggests. I > would like if what you said was made more explicit. > > Link for easy access: > http://www.fenicsproject.org/pub/copyright/forms/letter-author.pdf >
OK. Since we don't distribute FEniCS Apps, I don't see why they've been included on the consent form. Garth > Harish _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
