Al Chou wrote:
I agree we should not be releasing Apache versions of the whole Colt library (which technically wouldn't even be possible, as the hep.aida.* packages are LGPL'd, not under the the new CERN license). In any case, the question of the scope of Commons-Math continually comes up, and the merging in of Colt is yet another impetus for discussing it. If we were to include large portions or all of the CERN-licensed code of Colt, we would be in a position to claim a much larger scope/charter for the project. But would we want to? Some project members seem very interested in doing so (and I am certainly guilty of such thoughts), but I don't think it necessarily makes sense. Commons-Math's charter is a sound one, and I would not want to alienate/inconvenience users whose needs are well met by its current scope and charter (assuming there are any such) by increasing it unnecessarily. A separate project would probably be more appropriate if we wanted a larger scope.
Al
Al,
I really agree that "merging" or adding much of the code from Colt can result in a project outside the scope of Commons Math. (Not that this can't stop us from using portions of it within Commons Math initially, which I promote). I really perceive the need for a parent project that manages numerical and mathematical codebases that are considered to be outside the scope of Commons Math.
I agree that there are concerns with the hep LGPL packages and suspect they would not be allowed into Apache due to these concerns.
-Mark -- Mark Diggory Software Developer Harvard MIT Data Center http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
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