Dear Developers, As many will be aware, we posted recently about the baseless and unsubstantiated allegations on the GMP website and promised to respond.
We had anticipated that merely drawing attention to this material would lead to unprecedented public outrage and negativity towards MPIR. Of course, no publicity is bad publicity and we felt that this latest advertising would be the best yet. But sadly, the wave of extra developer effort we anticipated from this just hasn't materialised. After spending a few thousand dollars of precious funding on focus groups and taking prospective developers to dinner, we believe we've identified the reason. The wave of hype did lead to a flurry of activity, but just not in the anticipated direction. As a result of this research, we've made some significant changes to our strategy. In particular, we wish to make an announcement: In a desire to allow people to spend less time fruitlessly searching MPIR releases for non-existent license infringements and hence more time on new code for our benefit, we have decided today to consider publishing future versions of MPIR under LGPL v3+ terms. We'd like the community to comment on this proposal. An announcement of our first v3+ version of MPIR will be forthcoming in a few days. Best Wishes The MPIR Team. MPIR: "building our eMPIRe one bignum at a time" "arithmetic without imitation" P.S: a <sponsor | http://tinyurl.com/y9dky9z> has expressed interest in a different <license | http://tinyurl.com/yhlegke>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-de...@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.
