On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:49:05AM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote: > On 4/5/11 8:39 AM, Anders Logg wrote: > > We're making good progress with collecting the copyright forms and > > should soon be able to make the switch to LPGL. > > > > A couple of points I'd like to make: > > > > 1. When someone submits patches, maintainers first need to ask > > contributors to sign the two forms. Otherwise, we risk having to run > > after people we don't know to sign the forms later. > > > > 2. FEniCS Apps should have the exact same license as the rest of the > > code, simply because that enables copying of code from Apps to Core. > > It is natural (and desirable) that some of the code developed as part > > of an App moves into DOLFIN if it's found that code may be useful to > > other projects. > > > > This means CBC.Solve needs to either use the LPGL, or, if Harish still > > objects, be removed from FEniCS Apps or CBC.Twist removed from > > CBC.Solve. > > I understand and mostly agree with what you are saying. > > The only strong opinion I have is about cbc.twist. Not to be difficult, > but I genuinely feel its goals---being a test-bed to learn and educate > others about mechanics---are best served if any further projects built > upon it are developed in an open fashion. To enforce this, I would like > it to remain GPL.
I understand, but it's a complication if we can't copy code between the projects. Other opinions? > I think the easiest solution here is that I split cbc.twist from > cbc.solve. This allows the rest of cbc.solve to then be an LGPL FEniCS > App, and I have no other qualms about signing the license change forms. So it would be an add-on to CBC.Solve? It would be a bit unfortunate if we'd have to remove it from CBC.Solve. But perhaps it would be fairly easy to implement a new hyperelasticity solver. -- Anders _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
