On 9 April 2010 13:23, Marc <marc.gli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not sure I understand what is going on with MPIR. When the fork
> happened, 2 of the main stated goals where:
> 1) LGPL2 (required for sage+microsoft)
> --> MPIR is now LGPL3+ only

Correct. Will this create any issues for you?

> 2) a more open development process
> --> the public svn repository has been unavailable for months, the
> public mailing lists almost didn't see any traffic for that same
> period, and out of nowhere appears a new major release of MPIR.

Agreed. Of course the majority of the code being merged was already
public, being available in GMP.

>
> This is not a criticism, just noticing.
>
> Also, since you went back to considering GMP as upstream, I expect you
> will try to contribute relevant code there and only maintain in MPIR
> the code you find interesting and GMP hasn't integrated.
>

It's Open Source. They can, and always have been able to use whatever they want.

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