Dear Stephen, with great regret and sadness I take notice that ALDOR died, R.I.P! I am so sad that all efforts to save it did not succeed. I would at this point like to thank especially Ralf Hemmecke for his 2 1/2 year continuous effort to save ALDOR. Actually I do not see why it was not possible to find a medicine to cure ALDOR, sic a free license, and I would be very grateful if you could provide some more explanation why ALDOR had to die. Needless to say that many people, including me, will miss ALDOR, and will keep many of its attitudes fondly remembered.
With deep regrets BF. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Stephen, > > Since beginning of June 2012, the origo.ethz.ch site is closed. > This was the place with a copy of the Aldor SVN repository. The original > aldor.org SVN repository is not maintained anymore and down since long. > > svn list https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk > svn: OPTIONS of 'https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk': could not > connect to server (https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca) > > Due to licensee reasons it is impossible to host the Aldor sources on other > free hosting places (sourceforge, github, etc.), since they only allow free > hosting for code under an OSI approved license. > > My mail below (from more than 2 and a half years ago!!!), has now become > obsolete. :-( > > It can only mean that you have declared ALDOR to be officially dead. > > 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. > -- 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.
