NG-SPICE Implementation Document


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@iol.it>
Date Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:36:12 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi all,

We are approaching the end of August, which means that most of the
subscribers of this list will be back from their holidays. This is the
time to start the writing a document to describe what ng-spice will be. 

This task should be accomplished mostly by people in the electronics
industry and academia:

- VLSI design professionals
- VLSI related courses teachers

This to design a software product that is useful to the community that
should use it. The document should gather the ideas appeared on the
list in an ordered manner.  I think that this task can be accomplished
while deciding what to do with the license issue of spice code. 

I would like comments on the following:

As Stallman wrote, we cannot use GPL covered code in ng-spice, which does
not mean that we should exclude LGPL covered software, a lot of good
libraries are LGPL covered. Our efforts should concentrate on the
following tasks:

- Writing the implementation document.
- Applying available patches to the source (not readline).
- Trying to close the existing bugs

I have downloaded the patches from the Macquaire University and will apply
them to the CVS ASAP. The people interested in the  implementation doc,
should write a message to this list at the attention of James Swonger.

Paolo



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