Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-03-02 Thread Michael A. K. Gross
FYI, I got around to porting this today (with permission from Ed Williams). I think I found a bug. DP[][] appears to be initialized backwards, and is accessed into the uninitialized zone later (via a DP[n-2][m] term). On the Solaris box I ported it to, this gave me an NaN in all n=8 terms, but a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:13:21 -0800, Michael wrote in message <4b7ffc11.1020...@sofia.usra.edu>: > I do need to modify coremag to accomplish our goals, so I don't think > LGPL will cover it. The file itself claims GPLv2, and it's not good > enough anyway for NASA bean counters for other authors t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-20 Thread Gene Lege
-- It's just an inch from me to you, Depending on what map you use - Jewel On Feb 20, 2010 11:38 AM, "Norman Vine" wrote: On Feb 20, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Michael A. K. Gross wrote: > > > I do need to modify coremag to accomp... Yes the DoD standard takes a lo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-20 Thread Norman Vine
On Feb 20, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Michael A. K. Gross wrote: I do need to modify coremag to accomplish our goals, so I don't think LGPL will cover it. The file itself claims GPLv2, and it's not good enough anyway for NASA bean counters for other authors to claim that's an error without corre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-20 Thread Tim Moore
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Michael A. K. Gross wrote: > ... Norman Vine wrote: > > > > On Feb 20, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Tim Moore wrote: > > > > Actually it is the wrapper magvar.XXX that is GPL'd coremag.XXX is LGPLd > > > > IIRC magvar.XXX use to live in FlightGear hence its license and was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-20 Thread Michael A. K. Gross
Norman Vine wrote: > > On Feb 20, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Tim Moore wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Michael A. K. Gross >> mailto:mgr...@sofia.usra.edu>> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> I'm working on a US-government-funded flight planner for a NASA >> airborne >> astron

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-20 Thread Norman Vine
On Feb 20, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Tim Moore wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Michael A. K. Gross > wrote: Hi folks, I'm working on a US-government-funded flight planner for a NASA airborne astronomy mission (SOFIA). Airborne astronomy has worked in true headings for over 30 years du

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-20 Thread Tim Moore
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Michael A. K. Gross wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm working on a US-government-funded flight planner for a NASA airborne > astronomy mission (SOFIA). Airborne astronomy has worked in true headings > for over 30 years due to ever-antiquated NASA INS systems, but the spe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-20 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Michael A. K. Gross schrieb: > Unfortunately, it claims GPLv2. That would force NASA's hand at releasing > the planner code publicly, not something I can do as a contractor Please read the Licence (GPLv2) carefully again. It tells you, that you h

[Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-19 Thread Michael A. K. Gross
Hi folks, I'm working on a US-government-funded flight planner for a NASA airborne astronomy mission (SOFIA). Airborne astronomy has worked in true headings for over 30 years due to ever-antiquated NASA INS systems, but the spec has recently changed to magnetic. So, I get to code up a magnetic