Hi Lukas, Lukas Reichlin <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm the author of the Octave control package and came across this > thread coincidentally. I'm a bit worried about the future of my work > if Slicot should go nonfree. I propose to join our efforts and create > a free fork of Slicot 5.0 if the need should arise. I exchanged private emails with the Slicot developers and indeed they confirmed that future releases of Slicot will be under a nonfree license (my understanding is that academic usage will not be restricted but commercial usage will be forbidden unless one buys a commercial license). Creating a fork would be the ideal solution (and actually the only sustainable one on the long term, at least for bugfixes). I don't know if we will have enough resources, but the Arpack example is indeed an encouraging example. Also note I intend to create the Debian Slicot package at some point after the Debian Wheezy freeze. Best, -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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