[pooma-dev] Open-Source licensing

[Jeffrey D. Oldham]

John H. Hall wrote:

> Gang:
> I have now been asked officially by Jeff Brown (LANL CCS-DO) to get 
> these licensing issues straightened out which makes it official work 
> instead of a part-time hobby. So I need to know which packages y'all 
> want transferred out. I prefer the BSD license myself of the existing 
> licenses out there but I am open to debate on this issue. So here is 
> what I seem to remember.
>
> We want:
>
> Cheetah
> Pete
> Pooma R1 and R2 (R1 for compatibility issues)
>
> from the ACL.
>
> (Someone needs to remind me what is wrong with the license R2 was 
> taken out under so I don't go down the same path.)
>
> And I would like to take out:
>
> TecFramework
> Poomalote
> Physics Support Layer
>
> from the now defunct Blanca project.
>
> Are there any other items I need to put in the hopper. Is this list 
> sufficient for the VSIPL people?

Thank you for pushing this forward for so long.

For VSIPL++, POOMA and PETE probably suffice.

Personally, I believe making as much software available to as wide an 
audience as possible is a good use of taxpayers' moneys.  We'll let the 
marketplace decide which will survive.

-- 
Jeffrey D. Oldham
oldham at codesourcery.com