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

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