On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Johannes Strömberg wrote:
Why is GiNaC released under GPL and not under LGPL since it is a library system?
Might there be a misunderstanding? The initial "L" in LGPL does not stand for "Library" any more but for "Lesser". There are Libraries under GPL (libreadline for instance) and under LGPL and there are non-libraries licensed under GPL and LGPL. That said, we had no real choice since we did not want to rewrite all the numerical code. It's *very* time costly. Bruno Haible has worked many years on CLN and we wanted to use that excellent library. And CLN is licensed under GPL. That settled it. Regards -richy. PS: Please don't format your Email as HTML. -- Richard B. Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@GiNaC.DE> <http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>