Dear Stephen, as always I strongly support Ralf's request, with kind regards BF.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Stephen, > > May I ask you again to consider my mail from September 2009? > > Please, devote some time to put the Aldor project under a libre license. > > 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/ <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/axiom.as> >> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/**algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/** >> libax0/axextend.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/axlit.as> >> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/**algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/**libax0/stub.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/libax0/minimach.as> >> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/**algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/** >> axllib/src/lang.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(ru**ntime.ao <http://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 fricas-devel+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <fricas-devel%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/fricas-devel?hl=en<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 % 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.
