Everyone please read.... Re: GSOC 2014 is almost here - Volunteer mentors needed

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 9 February 2014 02:48, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> EVERYONE please at least read and
> comment in email - or just edit on the wiki.

for the GSoC task "VPM-B/BE"

here is a VPM-B in C and python:
https://github.com/bwaite/vpmb

the source code license looks to me like the 2-clause (simplified)
BSD, which is GPL2 compatible:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD

it does have the:
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

so we can technically fork it (e.g. remove the JSON code that it uses)
or convince the author via a simple email to release a GPL2d version
for us.
the idea would be to remove the FORTRAN prereq.

lubomir
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