On 1 April 2010 08:39, MPIR Team <thempirt...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear Developers, > > As many will be aware, we posted recently about the baseless and > unsubstantiated allegations on the GMP website and promised to > respond. > > We had anticipated that merely drawing attention to this material > would lead to unprecedented public outrage and negativity towards > MPIR. Of course, no publicity is bad publicity and we felt that this > latest advertising would be the best yet. But sadly, the wave of extra > developer effort we anticipated from this just hasn't materialised. > > After spending a few thousand dollars of precious funding on focus > groups and > taking prospective developers to dinner, we believe we've identified > the reason. The wave of hype did lead to a flurry of activity, but > just not in the anticipated direction. > > As a result of this research, we've made some significant changes to > our > strategy. In particular, we wish to make an announcement: > > In a desire to allow people to spend less time fruitlessly searching > MPIR releases for non-existent license infringements and hence more > time on new code for our benefit, we have decided today to consider > publishing future versions of MPIR under LGPL v3+ terms. > > We'd like the community to comment on this proposal. An announcement > of our first v3+ version of MPIR will be forthcoming in a few days. > > Best Wishes > > The MPIR Team.
This stikes me as admitting the GMP developers are correct in their claims, which you should not do if they are incorrect. If the GMP developers are incorect in their claims, ask them to give you a couple of examples of the copied code. So far, I've not seen any such example provided by them. For the MPIR team to claim this license change is so people can spend less time fruitlessly searching the MPIR releases for non-existent license infringements, seems a bit lame to me. Has the decision to release a GPL v3+ version alreadly been made? Your email implies you are asking for comments, but to say the announcement of your first v3+ version of MPIR will be forthcoming in a few days suggests you have already made the decision. If the decision has been made, there is not a lot of point in asking for comments. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
