To | ng-spice-devel@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it |
From | Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it> |
Date | Wed, 3 May 2000 22:15:10 +0200 (CEST) |
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Hi all, This is a draft for the letter on the GPL choice: We have choosen to develop a GPL simulator because most of the software we would like to use is covered by the GPL or the LGPL. This imply that we cannot develop our simulator using spice3f5 code because its license is incompatible with the GPL; in this context incompatible means that the spice3f5 code cannot include GPL code. We would use spice3f5 code to speed up the project, writing a simulator from scratch will take longer. This is the reason why we would see spice3f5 released under GPL or under the new version of BSD. What do you think ? Paolo