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

Lubomir I. Ivanov neolit123 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 10 03:12:43 UTC 2014


On 10 February 2014 13:07, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

but of course, still keep the GSoC task, for a student to implement
our local VPM-B.

lubomir
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