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

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Dear Stephen,

Since your positive sounding response

http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel/browse_thread/thread/1fe2046429277406

from January this year, I haven't heard of any news concerning a more
libre license for Aldor.

May I ask you again to consider my mail from September 2009?

Thank you
Ralf

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