Tim Jenness wrote on October 28: > > It's a bit fuzzy but about 20 years ago Starlink were given permission > to distribute PGPLOT. There was a big brouhaha at the time. At one > point Starlink reimplemented PGPLOT in terms of GKS but in the end > everything was cleared up and "native" PGPLOT was officially adopted > by The Starlink Project and they were allowed to put it in all their > source code and binary distributions. > > Now, given that was a long time ago I have no idea whether Starlink > were given written permission to tweak PGPLOT away from Tim's > original. I can probably ask someone who was around at the time.
Note that TimP does not hold the PGPLOT copyright - CalTech does. Even if they had made some written arrangement with Starlink, it is extremely unlikely that it would cover us. Aloha, Frossie _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
