Re: [ng-spice-devel] a bit more


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:20:40 +0100 (CET)
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Francesco Doni wrote:

> 
> Some opinion about licensing and surroundings having
> been explained, I foster as licensing policy for ng-spice
> something like the one applied to PHP by the PHP Development Team.
> (see http://www.php.net/license.html)
Sorry, but I do not see the point. PHP uses GPL Version 2 with some
addons regarding commercial redistribution of derived software. I think
that we should stay in GPL to legally use the GPL software around the
world. As Manu already wrote, we should speak about development issues,
Licensing will come later, let's produce some software first.

> We should acknowledge the contributions of Spice3 and the
> University of California at Berkeley in the NG-Spice
> documentation anyway.
> We should maintain only one development tree.
Yes, but before we have to plant the seeds for the trees to grow. As you
may have read I am slowly working on a sample module for the new spice
project, this library should free us from the "plot" structure of spice3.
I am trying to make it as multithread as possible (without implementing
threads, anyway), so that in a future release, when a sort of core program
will be ready, someone who knows how to deal with threads can easily add
them. 

At this time we need to write code and to discuss modules
implementations, more than discussing licensing issue or trying  do our
best to make money on something that still does nos exists. 

Paolo


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