On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote:
> William,
>
> I have contacted all of the devs who are listed on the hg logs of the
> relevant files (interrupt.h/interrupt.c) and asked them if they would be OK
> re-licensing their contirbutions to these files under a Cython friendly
> license.  All the responses I got were positive:
>
> Martin Albrecht:    "I'm happy to re-license my contribution."
> Gonzalo Tornaria:    "I'm ok with relicensing"
> David Harvey:    "Sure. Whatever license you normally use for Cython is
> fine."
> Craig Citro:    "I'm happy to relicense any code that I wrote to anything
> everyone else is happy with."
> Joel Mohler:    It doesn't look like touched the code, but did have a diff
> in which he moved the files.  I have
> contacted him as well, but I am not sure this is needed.  If you want to
> wait to hear from him that is fine.
>
> Are you OK with moving forward with the re-licensing of these two files?

Yes.

>   I
> am not sure what license would be best, but
> my guess is that Apache would work as Cython is released under this license.
>
> If you are OK with this plan, could you (or another sage dev) change the
> copyright and license of these two files in the main Sage repo?  Also, it
> would probably be a good idea of list all of these contributors as copyright
> holders in these files, so this information doesn't get lost when the files
> are moved to Cython.

I'm fine with anybody else doing that.

> Once the license has been changed I will begin to port them over to Cython
> and add Windows support.

Cool!

>
> Cheers and thanks everyone!
>
> Brian
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Ondrej,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Robert Bradshaw
>> >> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
>> >> > On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Brian Granger wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Hello all,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> In the older Cython docs here:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> http://modular.math.washington.edu/home/was/www/home/gfurnish/old/sage-3.0.6/doc/prog/node55.html
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The _sig_on and _sig_off macros are mentioned.  But, when I try
>> >> >> these
>> >> >> in
>> >> >> current Cython it fails.  I found this
>> >> >> thread started by Ondrej a few years ago:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> http://codespeak.net/pipermail/cython-dev/2008-November/003081.html
>> >> >>
>> >> >> in which William brought up the possibility of moving the relevant
>> >> >> code
>> >> >> from Sage to Cython.  William,
>> >> >> are you willing to relicense the interrupt.h and interrupt.c
>> >> >> functions
>> >> >> under LGPL or another license
>> >> >> that would allow their inclusion in Cython and other Cython using
>> >> >> projects?  I would like to port these
>> >> >> to Cython and try to add Windows support.
>> >> >
>> >> > That would be great!
>> >>
>> >
>> >>
>> >> This would really be great! I didn't have time to finish this, but it
>> >> annoys me a lot in our solvers, that I can't kill it easily.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yep, I have the same issue.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> The only problem in my case is that I am mixing Python and C++ too
>> >> much, I don't know what happens if you do
>> >>
>> >> _sig_on
>> >> # some C++ stuff, that calls Python....
>> >> _sig_off
>> >
>> > Hopefully we will find out!  Might be a bit messy though.
>>
>> essentially, 98% of the time is spent in pure C++ code, but then it
>> calls some Python at the end (for convert matrices to different
>> formats using scipy etc.) internally. So once it gets into python,
>> then ctrl-C works fine (raises an exception, that gets propagated into
>> a C++ exception, that gets converted back to a Python exception and
>> all is fine), but that 98% don't work with ctrl-C. So maybe this
>> _sig_off can somehow get called from my Python() class in C++, that
>> handles the interaction with Python.
>>
>> I've looked into the pynac and only expression.pyx contains
>> sig_off/sig_on, for example in the _derivative(). So either
>> _derivative will never invoke any python code, or it works.
>>
>> Ondrej
>>
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