Hi Please remember to reply-to-all such that everybody on the list can take part in the discussion.
søn, 31 05 2009 kl. 16:49 -0500, skrev dmelliott: > Dear Mr. Hauberg, Call me Søren; no need to be formal :-) > Thank you for your kind consideration. > > The package placement decision is up to anybody who is > familiar with your overall organizational system, and thus > competent to make it; this is certainly not myself. I'm also asking the other developers for advice. Would the 'Integration' package be a suitable place? > Along these lines, please feel totally free to rename to > make consistent with the existing scheme. Is the name, 'integrator', specific enough? It sounds very general to me, but as I said, I'm no expert in the field. > Copyright: First, I don't think that this is copyrightable in > the same sense that the value of "e" is not, and the concepts > are straight from the first week of everybody's Numerical > Analysis 101. However, the programming itself is not a > fact of nature, and thus might be. Sounds like you would prefer to put this function in the public domain. If that's what you prefer, then this is just fine. > Second, my goal is to help make Octave the most solid > numerical analysis application available. For this to be > true, there need be as few people involved in any potential > legal conflicts as possible. But as long as no Octave organisation exist I don't think it makes sense to assign copyright to it. If you assign copyright to a non-existing party then I guess (I'm no lawyer) nobody owns the copyright, which sounds like a legal nightmare to me. Søren > > > dmelliott > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
