On 24 Mai, 15:59, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > [...] > I *apologise unreservedly* for upsetting the GMP > developers. This flame war, whether well-intentioned or not, is much > to be regretted. It would have been better to simply state we forked > because we wished to support Windows development, have an open > repository and, at the time, continue with an LGPL v2.1+ licensed > library whilst GMP moved on with v3+, so that other v2+ projects had > time to assess v3+. That would have been more reasonable on our part. > We were naive in the extreme to not expect the hostile response we > got. This we regret deeply. > [...]
The MPIR web site (http://www.mpir.org/#about) does not state this, especially not the motivation for the fork. -Leif -- 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
