Dear Oliver, Thank you very much!
I will start the port asap. Please check the Image package[1], If you think your functions on image processing fit there, we will very happy to add them. Thanks again! Regards, Juan Pablo [1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/image/overview.html On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Oliver Woodford <o.j.woodford...@cantab.net> wrote: > Dear Juan Pablo > > I am very happy to contribute my code to your project under a GPLv3 > license. Please find the real2rgb code attached. Please let me know if > you want to include any other packages of mine. > > Kind regards, > Oliver > > On 11 October 2012 07:38, <carba...@ifi.uzh.ch> wrote: >> Juan Pablo Carbajal sent a message using the contact form at >> http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/. >> >> Dear Oliver Woodford, >> >> My name is Juan Pablo Carbajal, I am developer at Octave-Forge[1] a >> sibling project of GNU/Octave. I have downloaded your package real2rgb from >> the Matlab file exchange and I find it >> very useful. >> Would you like to contribute it to Octave-Forge? I know licensing issues are >> difficult topics and therefore I approach you with utter respect. >> >> If you accept this invitation to contribute code to Octave-Forge, I can >> offer >> you the following >> - You will be properly credited and your papers will be linked as well. >> - Maintenance of your function, test and demos will be taken over by the >> Octave and Octave-forge community. Of course you can continue contributing, >> and we will very happy to have you among us. I will also >> let you know of any bug report we get from the users. >> - I will take care of porting (code formatting, demos and test). >> - You function will be directly downloaded and installed from an >> Octave prompt (assuming it is packed inside real2rgb package): >> >pkg -forge install real2rgb >> >> The only thing that you need to do is to release your code under GPLv3 (we >> like this one :D ) or any license compatible with them, e.g. FreeBSD. I >> cannot use the downloaded the packages from the Matlab file exchange because >> it will be a violation of their "Terms of Use" (that code can be used only >> in >> Mathworks products). You need only to let me know that you allow me to >> redistribute your code under your free license of choice, I will >> take care of adding the header to each file of your package. >> >> In case you are interested, I can tell you about successful experiences of >> other researches contributing their work. For example the matGeom >> community[2] released under GPLv3 so that Octave-forge can mirror they >> package[3], since the package have enjoyed several new contributions and >> code >> optimization. A group form the technical >> university of Denmark[4] working on nonnegative matrix factorization also >> allowed us to redistribute their package under GPLv3. Biomechanics & >> Neurosciences researchers[5] have also changed their license to GPLv3 to >> allow us to produce packages out of their excellent algorithms. >> >> We have no other objective but to offer a truly free platform for the >> exchange of our research. I hope you join us! >> >> If you have any question or comments, please let me know without hesitation. >> >> Thank you very much for your excellent code! >> >> Regards, >> >> Juan Pablo Carbajal >> >> [1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/ >> [2] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/matgeom/index.php?title=Main_Page >> [3] http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Geometry_package >> [4] http://cogsys.imm.dtu.dk/toolbox/nmf/index.html >> [5] >> http://sites.google.com/site/systemsneurosciencegroup/people/stewart-heitmann >> -- M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal ----- PhD Student University of Zürich http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
