This is my regular prod for someone to respond to me on the SLALIB + GPL
issue. I am prepared to create a package that you can put on starlink FTP.
I'm just awaiting the go-ahead.
Tim
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Tim Jenness wrote:
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> On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Patrick Wallace wrote:
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> > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Tim Jenness wrote:
> >
> > > One question I have concerns fortran slalib. Is that going to be
> > > LGPL'ed? All the statements I've heard previously indicate that the answer
> > > to that question is "yes" but I just wanted to make sure. The reason I ask
> > > is that there is a lot of interest in using Fortran slalib for astrometry
> > > calculations in one of the populare DateTim perl modules but the Starlink
> > > licence is too restrictive for their purposes.
> >
> > As far as I know, the Fortran SLALIB will be treated the same as other
> > Starlink software.
> >
>
> Excellent. Steve: Is it possible that you can package up a LGPL fortran
> slalib and put it somewhere on the ftp server? I assume that the software
> store version will not be LGPL'ed since that won't match the version on
> the CD (but will be for the next CD). I only ask because there are people
> waiting for the LGPL SLALIB and I don't want to tell them that they have
> to wait 6 months for the next CD.
>
>
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Tim Jenness
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