Free Aldor
Ralf Hemmecke
May I ask you again to consider my mail from September 2009?
Please, devote some time to put the Aldor project under a libre license.
Thank you
Ralf
On 09/24/2009 11:38 PM, Ralf HEMMECKE wrote:
> Dear Stephen, dear Mike
> as you might know, I have built some scripts in FriCAS (a fork of
> Axiom) (http://fricas.sourceforge.net/) in order to build libaxiom.al
> from scratch. Unfortunately, I can neither distribute libaxiom.al nor
> some necessary .as files under the same license as FriCAS (mBSD),
> since this code is only available under the Aldor Public License 2.0.
>
> I hereby kindly ask you to release the following files under a BSD
> license (same as for the Axiom code).
>
> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axiom.as
> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axextend.as
> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/axlit.as
> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/stub.as
> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/libax0/minimach.as
> https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/algebraist/trunk/aldor/lib/axllib/src/lang.as
>
> Furthermore, in order to distribute a precompiled libaxiom.al together
> with FriCAS, it would be helpful to also release
>
> $(ALDORROOT)/lib/libfoam.al(runtime.ao)
>
> under a BSD license. For 'runtime.ao', also releasing the sources
> under a BSD license would be good, but I explicitly ask for the
> release of the .ao format.
>
> Please help the FriCAS project and don't let Aldor die.
>
> Has meanwhile anything been done to release all of the Aldor
> compiler+library sources under a GPL-compatible license?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Yours sincerely
> Ralf Hemmecke
Bertfried Fauser
as allways, I strongly support Ralf's issue and ask you kindly to
consider to free Aldor.
Cheers
BF.
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2012!
Ralf Hemmecke
Ralf Hemmecke
Bertfried Fauser
as always I strongly support Ralf's request to free Aldor, please consider
it ;-)
Kind regards
BF.
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Ralf Hemmecke
Bertfried Fauser
as always I strongly support Ralf's request,
with kind regards
BF.
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Ralf Hemmecke
May I ask you again to consider my mail from September 2009?
Please, devote some time to put the Aldor project under a libre license.
Thank you
Ralf
this month.
Bertfried Fauser
as always I support Ralf's request strongly.
Kind regards
BF.
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Ralf Hemmecke
Since beginning of June 2012, the origo.ethz.ch site is closed.
This was the place with a copy of the Aldor SVN repository. The original
aldor.org SVN repository is not maintained anymore and down since long.
svn list https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk
svn: OPTIONS of 'https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca/svn/trunk': could not
connect to server (https://aquarium.aldor.csd.uwo.ca)
Due to licensee reasons it is impossible to host the Aldor sources on
other free hosting places (sourceforge, github, etc.), since they only
allow free hosting for code under an OSI approved license.
My mail below (from more than 2 and a half years ago!!!), has now become
obsolete. :-(
It can only mean that you have declared ALDOR to be officially dead.
Bertfried Fauser
with great regret and sadness I take notice that ALDOR died, R.I.P!
I am so sad
that all efforts to save it did not succeed. I would at this point
like to thank especially
Ralf Hemmecke for his 2 1/2 year continuous effort to save ALDOR.
Actually I do not see why it was not possible to find a medicine to
cure ALDOR, sic a free license, and I would be very grateful if you
could provide some more explanation why
ALDOR had to die.
Needless to say that many people, including me, will miss ALDOR, and
will keep many
of its attitudes fondly remembered.
With deep regrets
BF.