[GRASS-PSC] Proposal to include the ccmath LGPL'd library into GRASS

[Soeren Gebbert]

Hello Paul,

2009/8/18 Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>

> Hi Soeren,
> This is not really a matter for the GRASS PSC. When the PSC approves SVN
> commit access for a developer he/she is then permitted to make changes in
> SVN as he/she sees fit. Technical issues are in general resolved by
> achieving consensus on the developers' mailing list, and the PSC only
> arbitrates as a last resort if consensus cannot be achieved. I think in this
> instance Hamish suggested it might be a PSC matter because of the licensing
> issue - but the simple solution is to re-licence the LGPL code as GPL when
> it goes into GRASS, to keep everything under the same licence (but as I said
> this is IMHO a matter for the developers' list...)


IMHO it may be difficult to re-license the ccmath library under the GPL ...
.

>
>
> Just to be clear - the GRASS PSC doesn't interfere in technical development
> issues
> Hope this is helpful
> best regards


Ok, if the licensing issue is a topic for the grass developer list, i will
discuss this there.

Thanks for your reply.
Best regards
Soeren

>
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Soeren Gebbert wrote:
>
>  Dear PSC,
>> i would like to make an proposal to include parts of the ccmath* library
>> into grass to replace the following numerical recipes algorithm in grass:
>>
>> Located in gmath library:
>> 1.) Computation of eigenvalues in eigen_tools.c.
>> 2.) Linear equation solver in lu.c
>> 3.) Singular value decomposition in svd.c
>>
>> The library will be located at grass_src/lib/ccmath.
>> I will patch all effected modules in GRASS.
>> A new gmath test suite will provide tests for most of the ccmath functions
>> which will be available in GRASS.
>>
>> The ccmath library is licensed under the LGPL. I will assure that every
>> ccmath file includes a LGPL header information and the name of the
>> original
>> author.
>> I will place a lgpl.txt license file in the ccmath library directory.
>>
>> If my proposal will be accepetd, i will commit the changes to the svn
>> development
>> repositories of grass6.5 and grass7.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Soeren Gebbert
>>
>> *CCMATH is a mathematics library, coded in C, that contains functions for
>> linear algebra, numerical integration, geometry and trigonometry, curve
>> fitting, roots and optimization, Fourier analysis, simulation generation,
>> statistics, special functions, sorts and searches, time series models,
>> complex arithmetic, and high precision computations.[1]
>>
>> [1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/ccmath/
>>
>>
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