On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:34 AM, David Harvey <dmhar...@cims.nyu.edu> wrote: > > > On Oct 19, 11:19 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > William, it's difficult for me to take this comment seriously. >> >> Given that it is meant as a joke (which I hoped would be clear), I >> hope you will not take it seriously. > > So, do you have a serious opinion on this issue? I happen to think > it's quite serious. For one thing, MPIR's apparent policy on > rebranding proof-of-concept code as production code is making me > reconsider my policy of publicly sharing code like this (or maybe I've > just learned a very important lesson about permissive software > licensing).
My serious opinion regarding anybody's code going into any project is that if they do not feel comfortable with it being released with that project, then it definitely should not be released as part of said project. If at all possible, the wishes of the author should be respected (permissive software licenses aside). I fully understand that you would be justifiably unhappy if in a few months, say, we find some subtle bug in computation of Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology groups (say), and it gets tracked back to "a bug in David Harvey's dc_divappr_q_n code". I'm optimistic that including this particular code for 1.3 is just an honest misunderstanding and that this will all get sorted out. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
