Re: [ng-spice-devel] Your request re: Spice
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:37:49PM +0000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> Richard Newton wrote:
> >
> > Dear ng-spice-development-team,
> >
> > I am currently managing the Spice3 release and would be pleased to
> > work with you to make the code compliant with Open Source (of
> > course, you are by no means the first to suggest this, as you can
> > imagine!)
> >
> > With the exception of the BSIM3 code, we are in agreement to move
> > to an Open Source mode, as supported by the UC Regents as you
> > suggest. The main issue has been the sheer manpower to actually
> > carry through on the source modifications and build the release
> > directory for our machines!
I would like some clarification on 'make the code compliant with Open
Source'. What exactly is required? Adding a copyright header to each
file is easy to do. What source modification is Richard Newton
referring to? It would be nice to baseline the current ng-spice
development tree. See also my comment on the next paragraph.
> > If you and your team are willing to make the approriate
> > modifications to the 3f5 sources (as we mutually agree upon) and
> > help us set up the "master" release on our FTP site, I am willing
> > to work with you on this.
As I understand copyright law, the sources we have modified are
copyrighted by the University of California, as well as all the
contributors to ng-spice (check the AUTHORS file). If the University
of California changes the license, all the other copyright holders
have to agree on the change as well to be able to continue development
on the ng-spice-rework tree as we currently have it in CVS.
Paolo, the Wine Project recently did a similar license change. You
may want to look up how they proceeded. IIRC, Alexandre Juillard
asked all the authors to print, sign and mail him a small message
saying the author agreed on the license change. Only after Alexandre
had collected messages from all authors, he could change the license.
Greetings,
--
Arno
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