I think people on sage-devel have already heard about this, but just for the
record.
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From: Paul Zimmermann <paul.zimmerm...@loria.fr>
Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:24 AM
Subject: [MPFR] new license for GNU MPFR
To: m...@loria.fr
Cc: ca...@loria.fr, philippe.schaef...@loria.fr, licens...@fsf.org
Dear users,
the main developers have decided to distribute GNU MPFR under the LGPL v3+
license up from version 3.0 (and right now for the subversion repository):
- this will hopefully better protect our work against software patents,
cf the recents threats against the free software community
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10173126-75.html)
- this will enable us to include code from GMP, which is LGPL v3+ too
(i.e., avoid to spend our time duplicating the good job done by the GMP
developers)
- since GMP is LGPL v3+, and MPFR heavily depends on GMP, this will not
change
much for the final user of MPFR (for example within GCC).
Of course, previous versions of MPFR remain under LGPL v2.1+.
Paul Zimmermann
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Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne --
Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/
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