I see from http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/store/conditions.html
that we are now committted to GPL. Excellent.
Sorry to be like a broken record but can we come back to the SLA issue? I
meant to talk to Pat at ADASS but forgot. As far as I can understand the
current status is that there is some concern that using LGPL for SLA will
cause problems since it will be a "free" alternative to the C version and
commercial companies that pay for the C version may get upset at having
paid for it, only for a non-viral fortran version to exist that they are
able to use commercially.
It occurs to me that specifically for SLA, using GPL rather than LGPL is
warranted since that means commercial companies will not want to use the
"free" version since they would have to GPL their applications, providing
a reason for them to pay for the C implementation. (I'm imagining here
that most commercial companies would not want to open up their source
code)/
Will that overcome the objections to a GPL slalib?
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Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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