On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Moritz Lennert <mlenn...@club.worldonline.be> wrote: > On 10/01/09 16:36, Soeren Gebbert wrote: >> >> Meschach is implemented in C and is able to replace the gmath library >> completely with much better implementations. >> I have integrated meschach into grass for testing purposes and, after some >> very basic testing, it works nicely. >> But im unsure if the licence of meschach is compatible with the GPL? Can >> somebody please verify this? Im not an expert in licensing. > > This seems to be the relevant part: > > "The source code is available to be perused, used and passed on without > cost, while ensuring that the quality of the software is not compromised." > > There is no mention of modification, and the second half of the sentence > ("while ensuring that the quality of the software is not compromised") > sounds quite suspicious to me. So, without claiming any expert knowledge > either, I would be sceptical.
I checked Debian, it is there: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=meschach http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/meschach.html http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/meschach/current/copyright Markus (who damaged his working i.spec.unmix (see Addons-SVN) to remove Meschach some years ago...) _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev