Ralf, One might wonder if after several years of sending these requests with absolutely no response one might wonder whether it might be possible to simply consider Aldor to be "abandoned" by it's principles and proceed with resurrecting it under some new organization?
Regards, Bill Page. On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Stephen, dear Mike, > > All the best for 2011. > > Since I haven't got any response so far, may I ask you again to consider > my mail from September 2009? > > Thank you > Ralf > > On 09/24/2009 11:38 PM, Ralf HEMMECKE wrote: >> >> Dear Stephen, dear Mike > >> as you might know, I have built some scripts in FriCAS (a fork of >> Axiom) (http://fricas.sourceforge.net/) in order to build libaxiom.al >> from scratch. Unfortunately, I can neither distribute libaxiom.al nor >> some necessary .as files under the same license as FriCAS (mBSD), >> since this code is only available under the Aldor Public License 2.0. >> >> I hereby kindly ask you to release the following files under a BSD >> license (same as for the Axiom code). >> >> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axiom.as >> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axextend.as >> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axlit.as >> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/stub.as >> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/minimach.as >> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/axllib/src/lang.as >> >> Furthermore, in order to distribute a precompiled libaxiom.al together >> with FriCAS, it would be helpful to also release >> >> $(ALDORROOT)/lib/libfoam.al(runtime.ao) >> >> under a BSD license. For 'runtime.ao', also releasing the sources >> under a BSD license would be good, but I explicitly ask for the >> release of the .ao format. >> >> Please help the FriCAS project and don't let Aldor die. >> >> Has meanwhile anything been done to release all of the Aldor >> compiler+library sources under a GPL-compatible license? >> >> Thank you for your time. >> >> Yours sincerely >> Ralf Hemmecke > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en.
