On 5 December 2011 15:43, Toby Howard <toby.how...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > On 05/12/2011 15:22, Carnė Draug wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> My name is Carnė 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. >> >> Carnė > > Hi Carnė, thanks for letting me know. We have no plans to change the GPC > licencing arrangments. > > best wishes > Toby
Yes, but are you interested in taking the package and hosting it on the GPC library website? Currently it has a link for our website (but the following link will be more appropriate http://octave.sourceforge.net/gpc/index.html ) but once we remove the package it will be broken. I just wanted to make sure that the code is not lost and users of the GPC library can still find it. 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
