[Aldor-l] [fricas-devel] License for FriCAS-Aldor interface files

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Dear Stephen,

Since now after ISSAC you might have a bit more time, I'd appreciate if 
you not only consider the files I've listed below, but also try to 
release the Aldor compiler under a GPL compatible license (maybe 
something like NAG did for AXIOM).

Thank you in advance
Ralf


On 07/09/2010 10:25 AM, Stephen Watt wrote:
> Dear Ralf,
>
> Thank you for the reminder.   Sorry to have been slow to act on this.
> I am presently returning from a meeting in Paris, about to board my
> flight, and will have only one half a day in the office before ISSAC.
>    If will try to respond in that window, but otherwise directly after
> ISSAC.
>
> Yours,
>
> Stephen
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Ralf Hemmecke<ralf at hemmecke.de>  wrote:
>> Dear Stephen, dear Mike,
>>
>> Since I haven't got any response so far, may I ask you again to consider
>> my mail from September 2009?
>>
>> Thank you
>> Ralf
>>
>> PS: The SVN repo at https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk seems to be
>> down again.
>>
>> svn list https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk
>> svn: OPTIONS of 'https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk': could not
>> connect to server (https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca)
>>
>> On 09/24/2009 11:38 PM, Ralf HEMMECKE wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Stephen, dear Mike
>>
>>> as you might know, I have built some scripts in FriCAS (a fork of
>>> Axiom) (http://fricas.sourceforge.net/) in order to build libaxiom.al
>>> from scratch. Unfortunately, I can neither distribute libaxiom.al nor
>>> some necessary .as files under the same license as FriCAS (mBSD),
>>> since this code is only available under the Aldor Public License 2.0.
>>>
>>> I hereby kindly ask you to release the following files under a BSD
>>> license (same as for the Axiom code).
>>>
>>> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axiom.as
>>> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axextend.as
>>> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axlit.as
>>> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/stub.as
>>> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/minimach.as
>>> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/axllib/src/lang.as
>>>
>>> Furthermore, in order to distribute a precompiled libaxiom.al together
>>> with FriCAS, it would be helpful to also release
>>>
>>> $(ALDORROOT)/lib/libfoam.al(runtime.ao)
>>>
>>> under a BSD license. For 'runtime.ao', also releasing the sources
>>> under a BSD license would be good, but I explicitly ask for the
>>> release of the .ao format.
>>>
>>> Please help the FriCAS project and don't let Aldor die.
>>>
>>> Has meanwhile anything been done to release all of the Aldor
>>> compiler+library sources under a GPL-compatible license?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time.
>>>
>>> Yours sincerely
>>> Ralf Hemmecke
>>