On January 30, 2006 8:21 PM Yigal Weinstein wrote: > ... > The one way gpl'd programs have an advantage on proprietary > software is that they can use existing gpl'd programs without > worrying about licenses etc.. For instance consider all the > work done in Fortran like quadpack etc.. Axiom if asked for > a numerical result could if linking was considered could use > the existing libraries to compute practically any function. > > In fact this is just the strategy used by the proprietary Axiom. > To link it to NAG was what was done. There are plenty of high > quality libraries that can be used for numerical approximations > in Fortran that are gpl: lapack is but one of them.
I agree completely that a replacement for the NAG interface is urgently needed for the open source version of Axiom. I would be very pleased to help anyone who is motivated to develop an interface to a LGPL library that would provide some of this lost functionality. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
