Oh, this is absolutely delicious!
Here is the author information from the gmp-4.2.1.tar.gz in doc/gmp.texi:
@c @author by Torbj@"orn Granlund, Swox AB
@c @email{tege@@swox.com}
Note the @c comments here, which as far as I see, do indeed comment
out the author information!! I invite people to check this fact by
downloading the original GMP tarball here:
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.2.1.tar.gz
So it is established that we are being accused of academic fraud for
removing the author information WHEN IT WAS DONE BY SOMEONE ON THE GMP
TEAM in the actual version of GMP we forked from!!
@sergey Thanks for your support. But I don't think we should do
anything further. I think what is currently on the GMP website is FAR
more damaging to the author of those comments than it is to us. Also,
there are two very significant changes on their website: 1) the
University of Washington is no longer mentioned, 2) the specific
specious implication that we knowingly downgraded licenses from v3 to
v2 has been removed. What is now alleged there is academic fraud, and
it is proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that this accusation is false.
We don't need to do anything further about this. Trust me, I know how
this works and it's over!
Bill.
On 25 May 2010 15:56, Jason Moxham <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 May 2010 12:38:34 Bill Hart wrote:
>> Someone has just pointed out that the mpir.texi document, from which
>> our pdf documentation is generated contains:
>>
>> @c @author Original version by Torbj@"orn Granlund, Swox AB - modified
>> by William Hart
>> @c @email{goodwillh...@gmail.com}
>>
>> So, not only did we not remove the original author information, but we
>> correctly added additional author information!!
>>
>> Now, we are looking into why this isn't appearing on the title page of
>> the pdf documentation. That appears to be a technical issue! We will
>
> note the @c before the @author , that is a comment , I assume because @author
> crashed earlier pdf makes
>
>> also add "The GMP Development Team" as per the latest GMP
>> documentation.
>>
>> So, next time Mr. Granlund, check your facts before posting nonsense!
>>
>> Bill.
>>
>> On 24 May, 19:58, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > I don't think that is something we can cover on the MPIR website.
>> >
>> > You might consider "Windows support", "FSF copyright assignment" and
>> > other issues.... It should just be clear that GMP won't, by and large,
>> > just accept our contributions. You might also consider that numerous
>> > individuals *did* try to contribute their improvements to GMP.
>> >
>> > I agree the the fork was intimately tied up with this stuff. But
>> > again, let's be positive about MPIR's current focus. I don't think we
>> > need to revisit this on the website.
>> >
>> > Bill.
>> >
>> > On 24 May, 19:34, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote:
>> > > On 24 Mai, 20:13, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > > > OK, I made a little bit of a change to the "about" section of the
>> > > > MPIR website. It now has:
>> > > >
>> > > > "MPIR is an open source multiprecision integer (bignum) library
>> > > > forked from the <a href="http://gmplib.org/";>GMP (GNU Multi
>> > > > Precision)</a> project. It consists of much code from past GMP
>> > > > releases, in combination with much original contributed code."
>> > > >
>> > > > I doubt that addresses the concern you had, but it is, in my opinion,
>> > > > clearer and simpler than what we had. In particular I removed the bit
>> > > > about originally being a fork of GMP 4.2.1 (which was LGPL v2+), etc.
>> > > > I don't think that information is particularly useful or serving any
>> > > > definite purpose any more, though there wasn't anything particularly
>> > > > wrong with it.
>> > > >
>> > > > But again, I'm happy to change something if it isn't clear, or
>> > > > perhaps I should say that the new MPIR webmaster will (I've just been
>> > > > transferring credentials over for that).
>> > >
>> > > (primary goals:) "To maintain full interface support with GMP - MPIR
>> > > is a drop-in replacement for GMP."
>> > >
>> > > So it isn't clear why MPIR forked rather than contributing their
>> > > enhancements to GMP.
>> > > (And one may ask himself why and when he should use MPIR instead of
>> > > GMP and vice versa.)
>> > >
>> > > -Leif
>> > >
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