Re: [ng-spice-devel] License issues
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Francesco Doni wrote:
> I agree, we can focus later,
> maybe Sangiovanni will have some suggestion or question.
> I think we should give the project details on which we are still discussing,
> am I right?
Yes, he asked at his lecture at "La Sapienza" what we were doing with
spice. He was interested in the lines of development, we can expand that
section in the letter. He send me a version of sparse to replace the one
in ng-spice (I have written it in a message after the lecture). Read the
home page of ng-spice project and tell me if you agree with the
improvements, and write new ideas.
> Paolo, if you think it could help, you can mention that other projects,
> like mine if ...
Sure, we should join the force and share ideas. Why not insert your doc in
the project web site ?
> Sangiovanni remember it, would share their result with ngspice and there are
> discussions on the list concerning the possibility to merge the effort of
>some
> people working on other eda project. I think that this convergence effort
> could give to ngspice a sort of recognition.
Yes
> Please Paolo ask if my previous suggestion to send an official letter
> to the EECS department in the person of Richard Newton, Professor and
> Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
> is a good idea or if there is a better suggestions.
Inthink this will be the "next" move. Probably, after the one to
Sangiovanni. May be Sangiovanni himself will ask for that letter. As far
as I know he is a friend of Newton.
> Last but not list, I feel useful a license review concerning license types
> considered or involved with this project, pointing out differences and
> possible conflicts.
We should point out what GPL is: it is avery restrictive license, I think
that they will opt for the new BSD.
> I'm going bananas about the license problem perhaps because I'm not an
>expert,
> anyway I'm sure that some pieces of the code I developed in my old project
> around Berkeley spice are not compatible with ngspice. I can recode them
> and this could
> be, technically speaking, a better solution for ngspice.
Post the code and let the people see what can be done, this will share the
load between more developers.
Franz, as always, we have ftp and web space, let's use it. If you have
docs, links and others interesting items, send me them, I will update the
site.
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