Why GPL ?


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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 


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