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

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Dear Stephen,

I wonder whether you will stick to what you wrote in your mail from July 
2010.

Ralf

PS: It is now one year ago that I started reminding you every month.

On 07/29/2010 07:55 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> 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
>>>