Yep. The only real question remaining for Tim J is whether they got a viral Free style license (e.g. the right to bundle it with Starlink under the GPL), in which case forks are explicitly allowed.
(Mobile) On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Frossie <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
