Re: [ng-spice-devel] ng_spice messages
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, GLAO S. Dezai wrote:
[Error Handling routine]
> 1. Writting a single error displaying routine for the entire simulator
Yes this is a great idea.
> 2. Writting a single file where the strings array will be put.
Why not use gettext from GNU ?
> 3. Carefully identifing and numbering all the simulator's messages in
> relation with the string table
This has already been done by the original coders.
The main problem, as far as the Berkeley's code is involved is this:
To have your code included in the future release of ng-spice, the one
GPLed, you have to put it under GPL or LGPL. This is in contrast with the
license of Berkeley's spice. You cannot link GPL code to Berkeley's spice,
becuase the GPL license forbid this, so your code cannot be included in
the future GPLed spice.
So this is the stall point we reached. There are two ways to overcome this
point:
1) Persuade Berkeley CAD Group to change their License with a BSD modified
one (always form Berkeley) that is not in contrast with GPL.
2) Write a new spice from scratch.
We are on both roads. The GPLed simulator will take the best of spice and
will include enhancements already present in commercial simulator. On the
other road there is a draft of the leter we are going to send to
Sangiovanni and the Berkeley group asking them to switch the license of
spice code.
What's about the letter, Manu. I know that someone moved to Silicon
Valley, who was ?
Bye,
Paolo
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