Re: [ng-spice] NG-SPICE Project
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Manu Rouat wrote:
> My wish would be to put the stuff under GPL. At the moment, it seems most
> of the code is under a BSD Licence, but I'm not sure all of it is.
Spice license type is very controversial. I have seen in some .lsm files:
Free for people friendly with United States, but I think that is a joke.
>
> Objection: there are many schematic editors that can spit out spice
>netlists.
> Integrating the stuff into an EDA environment (gEDA for instance) should't
> be top priority.
Yes, but when the group in Roma was formed, some of them were interested
in doing this and did not wanted to clean spice. The coding of the
schematic is independent from the spice code. I hope that they will be
interested in join the gEDA develpment, but it's their choice.
> Top priority should be the simulator itself (I would start with some code
> cleanup first - spice3 is a mess!)
This i my personal top priority.
> As for the syntax highlighting editor, I have written a mode for xemacs
> that does that (well , it's for Eldo, but Eldo has spice-like syntax) -
> if people are interested...
I am interested, but I prefer to use a lighter editor.
There is an ftp site for ng-spice, send me the file and I will put it in
ftp://ieee.ing.uniroma1.it/pub/electronics/ng-spice
Paolo
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