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

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Feb 10 07:28:24 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 13:07 +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov 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

IIRC that was a FORTRAN to C conversion and quite unusable...

> 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.

Hate that license.

> 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.

True.

/D



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