3 Mar
2008
3 Mar
'08
10:18 p.m.
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Jasper Stolte apparently wrote:
I'm not quite sure how this licensing stuff works. The algorithms are all public domain afaik, Octave made some implementation of them in C++. The class structure of this toolbox will be totally different, it's even written in a whole other language. Is it forbidden for us to look at how they implemented it without going to GPL?
Safest is not to look. And ask the author to release under BSD. (Sometimes s/he will.) But this seems an interesting case, if you accurately describe it. When you say the algorithm is in the public domain, does that mean that you know of a public domain implementation in code or in pseudocode? Cheers, Alan Isaac