Someone has just pointed out that the mpir.texi document, from which
our pdf documentation is generated contains:
@c @author Original version by Torbj@"orn Granlund, Swox AB - modified
by William Hart
@c @email{goodwillh...@gmail.com}
So, not only did we not remove the original author information
I don't think that is something we can cover on the MPIR website.
You might consider "Windows support", "FSF copyright assignment" and
other issues It should just be clear that GMP won't, by and large,
just accept our contributions. You might also consider that numerous
individuals *did* try t
Just a quick clarification. I wrote:
"As far as I know, the library itself was correctly licensed though."
Obviously, given the foregoing, that isn't what I meant to say.
This is to be taken in the context of the parenthetical remark in the
following statement from the GMP website:
"a renamed GM
On 24 Mai, 20:13, Bill Hart wrote:
> OK, I made a little bit of a change to the "about" section of the MPIR
> website. It now has:
>
> "MPIR is an open source multiprecision integer (bignum) library forked
> from the http://gmplib.org/";>GMP (GNU Multi Precision)
> project. It consists of much cod
OK, I made a little bit of a change to the "about" section of the MPIR
website. It now has:
"MPIR is an open source multiprecision integer (bignum) library forked
from the http://gmplib.org/";>GMP (GNU Multi Precision)
project. It consists of much code from past GMP releases, in
combination with m
Interesting observation. Do you think we should state the original
reasons for the fork? Bear in mind, some of these reasons are no
longer valid, e.g. GMP now has an open repository.
We also aren't releasing new versions under LGPL 2.1+ ourselves any
more. After extensive consultation we decided t
I just made a check of past GMP tarballs regarding this Title Page issue.
Right up to GMP 4.3.0 the document license was GFDL 1.2. By GMP 4.3.0
@author{The GMP Developers} had been added (I didn't bother checking
the precise version this got added). Nothing wrong with either no
author or lack of s
On 24 Mai, 15:59, Bill Hart wrote:
> [...]
> I *apologise unreservedly* for upsetting the GMP
> developers. This flame war, whether well-intentioned or not, is much
> to be regretted. It would have been better to simply state we forked
> because we wished to support Windows development, have an op
