From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20973 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2010 15:11:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 20872 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Apr 2010 15:11:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.z8.ru (HELO mail.z8.ru) (80.93.58.56) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:11:03 +0000 Received: from 113-35-220-62-dyn.hn.nnov.stream.ru ([62.220.35.113] helo=64-BIT.localdomain) by mail.z8.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1O24Et-0007l9-7m for gsl-discuss@sourceware.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:10:51 +0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:11:00 -0000 From: Sergey Bochkanov Message-ID: <1575429937.20100414191048@alglib.net> To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GSL and ALGLIB In-Reply-To: References: <758802574.20100413142051@alglib.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-q2/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Hello, Brian. You wrote 14 =E0=EF=F0=E5=EB=FF 2010 =E3., 12:58:38: > The GPL defines source code as "the > preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" -- which in > this case is the underlying algorithm definitions for the converter, > not the individual routines. We could only consider using other code > if all the associated software (and documentation) is free. Yes, translator is still non-free. I think that some day I'll make it free, but it isn't top priority for me. Just can't come to some decision on this subject, so I am leaving this question open for a while. And, actually, ALGLIB users rarely need something beyond the version in the language they use. > Whether it makes sense techically to use ALGLIB in GSL, it is > difficult for me to comment without the converter being free software > and available to study. 95% of C++ sources are as human-readable as original pseudocode. Remaining 5% are places where C++ is used to emulate continuations - feature lacking in many modern programming languages. However, it can be made human-readable too (just one day or two to tweak translator) if someone needs it. It wasn't deliberately obfuscated :) Technically, ALGLIB can be linked to GSL and can be used under GPL even without translator. --=20 With best regards, Sergey mailto:sergey.bochkanov@alglib.net