Dear Stephen, I still solemnly support Ralf's request to free Aldor. I hope that after your kind last mail the process doing so in still under way!
Kind regards BF. On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Stephen, > > May I ask you again to consider my mail from September 2009? > > Thank you > Ralf > > PS: The Aldor SVN repository is not working. > ping https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca > ping: unknown host https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca > > 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. > > -- quam cito dictur, tam facile non fit! % Dr habil Bertfried Fauser % Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, Univ. of Birmingham % Honorary Associate, University of Tasmania % contact |-> URL : http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~fauserb/ % Phone : +44-121-41-42795 -- 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.
