Hi My name is Carnë and I'm contacting you on the subject of the octave wrapper for gpc which has been part of the octave-forge project.
We have recently decided to drop all packages that are non-free or dependent on non-libre libraries (you can see the announcement here http://gnu-octave-repository.2306053.n4.nabble.com/octave-forge-announcement-non-free-is-no-more-td4111033.html and the discussion here http://gnu-octave-repository.2306053.n4.nabble.com/future-of-non-free-in-octave-forge-td4081264.html ). This included the gpc package since the GPC library is not libre even though the package itself is. I hope you don't understand this move as an affront to your software, you are completely free to develop the package and we are in no way against it. As for releases, since the likely users of the package will also be users of the GPC library, I'm sure they would expect it to be released first on your own website too. Despite this, I'd like to encourage you to still release the package under a free license. Of course, we see releasing the GPC library under a free software license as the ideal solution, and if that ever happens we will gladly accept the package back in the project. There's also the option to dual-license GPC (GPL for everyone, alternative license to anyone who wants to lock it up) would probably allow you to keep your existing business model while making GPC free. FFTW and Qt are two examples of popular free commercial software that have followed this route. I hope to hear from you soon. Both package and source are still on our site, available for download and checkout. Carnë ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
