On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Matthew Kenworthy wrote: > Tim, > > That's not a problem if we step away from trying to implement axis labelling >> in each subsystem. The AST library >> >> http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/starlink/AST >> >> is a generalised coordinate library but more importantly it includes a >> generic plotting interface. >> > > The issue (as I understand it) with PGPLOT is that its license is not free > enough for several Linux distributions.
The PGPLOT issue is interesting in that Starlink were given a licence to use and distribute PGPLOT but no-one can find the paperwork from 20 years ago :-) That's just a sidetrack though. The point being that, for example, the Starlink::AST perl module can create plots for PGPLOT, PLplot and Tk without any code changes at the user level once the device is created. > If the licensing is anything but > 'free' for the AST library, then any plotting built with AST will have the > same problem as PGPLOT. Do you know if the ASt licensing is acceptable to > all Linux distributions? > It's GPL. We own the code so we can be reasonably flexible on this (although probably not Artistic). -- Tim Jenness JAC software http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
