Dear Stephen, as always, I wnat to add to Ralf's message (and Bill's) that I would very much appreciate to see Aldor (or at least the part needed to run it alongside with Axiom) to be free too.
Kind regards BF. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Stephen, > > May I ask you again to consider my mail from September 2009? > > Meanwhile the situation has become more difficult since I will have to patch > axextend.as in order to produce libaxiom.al for FriCAS. > > Some time ago, you have said that you are trying to release Aldor under GPL. > What is causing so much delay? > > > Thank you > Ralf Hemmecke > > 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. > -- % PD Dr Bertfried Fauser % Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, Univ. of Birmingham % Honorary Associate, University of Tasmania % Privat Docent: University of Konstanz, Physics Dept <http://www.uni-konstanz.de> % 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.
