I fully agree with this strategy. Reprisals are not the solution to this problem and we must display a measure of patience.
Would someone like to volunteer to draft a letter to the Free Software Foundation/GNU project setting out the complaint in detail. They certainly cannot be happy that their GNU project (GMP) is acting this way. People who feel strongly about this could then sign their name to it as a petition. I don't think this should be allowed to continue within our community and nor should one person (William Stein who is not even an MPIR developer) be left to deal with it alone. Writing to the FSF is the first in a long list of steps we can take, within the law, to deal with this issue. I hereby recuse myself as an interested party. I believe it should be done by a party who is not currently involved directly with MPIR. It would hold more weight if it came from a tenured person or someone of high standing within our community. Please contact either myself of William Stein off list if you would like to do this. All this fuss over 30 lines of Open Source software!! This has literally cost hundreds of hours of our time and generated many hundreds of lines of email correspondence!! The issue cannot just be ignored. If you would like further details of why that is the case, please contact us. Bill. On 18 May, 13:55, Sergey Bochkanov <sergey.bochka...@alglib.net> wrote: > Hello, Bill. > > You wrote 18 мая 2010 г., 15:37:56: > > > The FSF notified us that it was their intention to try and get > > Torbjorn to remove the outdated statements from his website about > > MPIR. He hasn't done so. > > And he never mentioned that license was changed to LGPL 3 mostly due > to his objections of 2.1 > > Maybe it is time to sue him for the defamation? :) Well, he threatened > William by something like this... Now it is his time to flee to the > North Korea! (I still think that Iceland is too close to the > USA/Sweden). > > Back to serious conversation. > > GNU MP is part of the GNU Project. Maybe you should contact someone at > the GNU? They should have some kind of contacts with TG. > > I know that you don't want to make loud quarrel full of mutual > accusations, and I really value you patience. But its gone too far. > Even FSF agreed that everything is OK. What else he needs? > > -- > With best regards, > Sergey mailto:sergey.bochka...@alglib.net > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
