> Hi, > > 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. Debian, Octave and Scilab developers > already do the same for Arpack [1]. > > Best regards, > Lukas > > [1] > > http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng/ >
> 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 > As the main coordinator of arpack-ng, I would be also volunteer for such > task (slicot-ng). > > Sylvestre > > Hi Sylvestre I would like to "bump" this thread [1] from mid-2012 about creating a free fork of SLICOT, which has finally gone from GPLv3 to non-free a few months ago (version 5.5). What do you think about a joint effort between Debian, GNU Octave and Scilab to maintain a free fork, based on SLICOT 5.0, similar to arpack-ng [2] ? Best regards, Lukas PS: My co-author of the control package, Thomas Vasileiou, has already a few patches. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2012/06/msg00154.html [2] http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
