LOL. On 16 April 2010 17:53, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Bill Hart <[email protected]> > wrote: >> By the way, some people have mentioned the MIT style licenses. Does >> anyone know the functional difference between those and the BSD >> licenses? They seem isomorphic to me, but I get the impression they >> are not. >> >> Bill. > > The MIT license is more prestigious. > > -- William > > >> >> On 16 April 2010 17:15, Cactus <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Apr 16, 11:57 am, Sergey Bochkanov <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Hello, Bill. >>>> >>>> You wrote 16 апреля 2010 г., 12:23:43: >>>> >>>> > What you suggest is to effectively maintain two versions of MPIR, one >>>> > version 2.1 the other 3. >>>> >>>> No, quite the opposite. I am talking about plugin-based framework >>>> where framework itself is 2.1, and some plugins are 3.0, some are 2.1 >>>> too. Here 'plugin' means either implementation of mpn-function or one >>>> of the higher layer functions. >>> >>> Hi Sergey, >>> >>> Unfortunately, its only notionally modular and, is structured >>> internally rather like a complex wiring loom with a mass of inetrnal >>> connections and no circuit diagram. >>> >>> There is, in my view, no practical way of maintaining a v2+ and a v3+ >>> library from a single code base unless we put a truly massive effort >>> into restructuring the code >>> >>>> I don't know MPIR's internals good enough, but I thought that library >>>> is modular: i.e. you can change mpn internals without affecting higher >>>> layers and you can change implementation of some function without >>>> affecting another functions. >>>> >>>> > We did consider such an option, but it is much harder than it >>>> > seems, and we simply don't have sufficiently many contributors to >>>> > manage that, >>>> >>>> Could you point me out one or two of the difficulties? May be there is >>>> a way to workaround them... >>>> >>>> > there seems to be a lot of interest in contributing to a BSD >>>> > licensed library. Another individual I asked about this said they >>>> > thought it was a great idea and that one of the main things that >>>> > puts them off currently is the LGPL. >>>> >>>> What is wrong with LGPL as long as it is 2.1? Currently I see only one >>>> drawback - it can't be used in a BSD open source project. However, I >>>> know of no BSD open source project which may be interested in multiple >>>> precision. >>> >>> In my view the main problem with the LGPL is that it comes from an >>> organisation - the FSF - that seeks to suggest that there is something >>> ethically wrong with commercial closed source software. >>> >>> The LGPL is not even liked that much by the FSF because it allows such >>> use and they hence constantly push people towards a GPL license. >>> Which is fine if you are in this camp. >>> >>> But, as Bill has said, this makes commercial users uneasy. In any >>> event I dislike the license because I am in a completely different >>> group in that I _want_ my published code to be used commercially and I >>> want a license that does not only grudgingly allow such use but >>> encourages this by making it explicit that this is allowed. >>> >>> And this makes BSD much better from my point of view than LGPL. >>> >>> best regards, >>> >>> Brian Gladman >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "mpir-devel" 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/mpir-devel?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "mpir-devel" 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/mpir-devel?hl=en. >> >> > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" 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/mpir-devel?hl=en. > >
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