On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Ian Hinder <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 13 Oct 2015, at 19:20, Barry Wardell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Ian Hinder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just realised that AEILocalInterp was moved to >> >> https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/numerical >> >> Would it be better for this to be under the cactuscode team instead, i.e. >> >> https://bitbucket.org/cactuscode/numerical >> >> AEILocalInterp is nothing to do with the Einstein equations. >> > > I believe the reasoning for including it in the Numerical arrangement as > opposed to, for example, CactusNumerical is that AEILocalInterp is licensed > under the GPL and the author does not wish to relicense it under the LGPL. > Since Cactus thorns are required to be licensed under the LGPL it cannot be > include with Cactus, and so the idea was to have it as part of a new > arrangement under the Einstein Toolkit instead. > > > Hi Barry, > > Yes, we didn't want to (couldn't) make it part of Cactus, i.e. in an > arrangement starting with "Cactus". But I thought we were going to still > host it under the Cactus BitBucket account, since being under Einstein > Toolkit doesn't make much sense. It is of interest to a wider community > than just those using Cactus for GR. The idea was to have a generic > location for free software Cactus thorns which are not part of Cactus. > Historically -- and way before the Einstein Toolkit existed -- the cactuscode.org CVS (and later SVN) servers hosted many Cactus-related repositories for non-Cactus thorns. -erik -- Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/
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