That is too bad, since MuPAD was conceived and created at a public university, supported by public funds, it does not seem right that a private company (The Mathworks) should have exclusive rights to the source code.
Hazem On Mar 19, 11:18 am, "Nicolas M. Thiery" <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:44:15PM +0100, Florent Hivert wrote: > > > Dear Hazem, > > > > Can anybody confirm that MuPAD was open source / viewable source at > > > one time (when it was at the University of Paderborn), and if so, > > > where to obtain the source? > > > If it was fully open it was at its very beginning (ie prior version 1.4 in > > 2000). The library which contains the full mathematical knowledge was > > distributed in it's source form in a tarball and so was more or less open > > source. As far as I know, the source of the kernel (which contains the > > interpreter and basic data structures handling (numbers, expression, > > polynomials) was never released. Some peoples had access to it under NDA. > > As far as I know it has never been fully open. In fact, except for the > pricing changes (from free, to non free, to matlab-style price), the > situation has never really changed (i.e. as Florent mentioned viewable > sources for the library for every MuPAD user, viewable kernel sources > under NDA for some people). > > At some point we almost were able to negotiate the release of the > library under open source. And then the university fired the group, > and the idea was dropped. > > Cheers, > Nicolas > -- > Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
