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BLAS License


From: Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso
Subject: BLAS License
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 06:32:07 -0700

Hi. In the following thread for the GNU Octave mailing list, your
software was discussed:

    http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2006-May/000206.html

I'm curious. Why haven't you considering liberating your code under
the GPL? If you indeed are committed to making academic software such
as GNU Octave, GPLing your code or similarly liberating it would be
most beneficial for everyone involved. You would benefit because it
would make your code much more widely available and hence give you
more recognition. It would also make all of your users immensely
happy. which seems to be something that concerns you. Plus, you could
potentially then have people from all around helping you with the
laborious task of code maintenance and debugging.

Don't worry. If it's name recognition you want, you'll still get it
even if your code is free software. We all know, for example, that
John W. Eaton is one of the main driving forces behind GNU Octave,
together with many other contributors, all carefully acknowledged
here:

   http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/acknowledgments.html

I hope you reconsider the licensing terms of your software. Of all
people, academics need free software the most (especially academics
like myself who live in underprivileged countries). Don't let anyone
tell you otherwise.

I am posting this email to Octave's mailing list too, since they
seemed interested in this issue.

Best,
- Jordi G. H.



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