Re: [ng-spice] Licensing issues


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From Manu Rouat <emmanuel.rouat@wanadoo.fr>
Date Fri, 03 Sep 1999 09:27:58 +0200
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Kev wrote:
> 
> Arno wrote:
> >
> > May I suggest a third alternative?
> >
> > We could contact the copyright holders, in this case the Berkeley CAD
> > Development Group, and ask them to rerelease the code under the GPL
> > license.
> 
> I suggested this before.
> 
> Does anyone want to take responsibility for the task?
> 
> (I'll do it if no-one else knows anyone at Berkley, or
> wants to to do it.)
> 
> I would like to see the solver code LGPL'd and a generic
> device model interface, with the standard models LGPL'd.


It's definitely worth trying. Should we write a common request to Berkeley?
Who makes the draft?

manu

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