Letter to Newton (2nd)


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Wed, 24 May 2000 08:18:33 +0200 (CEST)
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Eric, 

I have modified the letter according to your suggestions :

Dear Prof. Newton,

Thank you for your interest in our project. We have read the letter you
send to the ng-spice-development mailing list and would like to ask you
something some details. 

We would like a 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 are you referring to ? 

As you may have seen on our web site, we are aiming at the development of
a GPL covered circuit simulator based on spice3, but with  new features. 
In your letter it is not  clear if you are going to continue the
development of spice3f5 or simply change its license. 
How would UCB react to a split in the development tree ?

One note about bsim3(soi) and 4: our development team is working on the
devices interface to the simulator; we are planning make devices behave like
plugins. This reduces the memory footprint of the simulator (only really
needed devices will be loaded into main memory) and let people to use even
non "Open Source" models. 

Regards,
............


Waiting for your comments.

Paolo


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