Hi everyone, after receiving an e-mail (see below) from the GPC devs confirming that they have downloaded the source for the gpc package, I have removed it from the project.
For those interested, they have made it available on their FTP servers together with wrappers for other languages at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/gpc/#Ports Carnë On 11 December 2011 22:01, Toby Howard <toby.how...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > On 05/12/2011 15:48, Carnë Draug wrote: >> On 5 December 2011 15:43, Toby Howard<toby.how...@manchester.ac.uk> >> wrote: >>> On 05/12/2011 15:22, Carnė Draug wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> My name is Carnė and I'm contacting you on the subject of the octave >>>> >>>> wrapper for gpc which has been part of the octave-forge project. >>>> >>>> We have recently decided to drop all packages that are non-free or >>>> dependent on non-libre libraries (you can see the announcement here >>>> >>>> >>>> http://gnu-octave-repository.2306053.n4.nabble.com/octave-forge-announcement-non-free-is-no-more-td4111033.html >>>> and the discussion here >>>> >>>> >>>> http://gnu-octave-repository.2306053.n4.nabble.com/future-of-non-free-in-octave-forge-td4081264.html >>>> ). This included the gpc package since the GPC library is not libre >>>> even though the package itself is. >>>> >>>> I hope you don't understand this move as an affront to your software, >>>> you are completely free to develop the package and we are in no way >>>> against it. As for releases, since the likely users of the package >>>> will also be users of the GPC library, I'm sure they would expect it >>>> to be released first on your own website too. Despite this, I'd like >>>> to encourage you to still release the package under a free license. >>>> >>>> Of course, we see releasing the GPC library under a free software >>>> license as the ideal solution, and if that ever happens we will gladly >>>> accept the package back in the project. There's also the option to >>>> dual-license GPC (GPL for everyone, alternative license to anyone who >>>> wants to lock it up) would probably allow you to keep your existing >>>> business model while making GPC free. FFTW and Qt are two examples of >>>> popular free commercial software that have followed this route. >>>> >>>> I hope to hear from you soon. Both package and source are still on our >>>> site, available for download and checkout. >>>> >>>> Carnė >>> >>> >>> Hi Carnė, thanks for letting me know. We have no plans to change the GPC >>> licencing arrangments. >>> >>> best wishes >>> Toby >> >> Yes, but are you interested in taking the package and hosting it on >> the GPC library website? Currently it has a link for our website (but >> the following link will be more appropriate >> http://octave.sourceforge.net/gpc/index.html ) but once we remove the >> package it will be broken. I just wanted to make sure that the code is >> not lost and users of the GPC library can still find it. >> >> Carnë > > Thanks, I now have that code saved. > > best wishes > Toby > > -- > Toby Howard > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Senior Lecturer (Computer Graphics) > School of Computer Science,The University of Manchester, UK > www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 Tips for Better Server Consolidation Server virtualization is being driven by many needs. But none more important than the need to reduce IT complexity while improving strategic productivity. Learn More! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51507609/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
