Re: GSL, VSIPL, and the ultimate numerical library

[Randall Judd <judd at nosc dot mil>]

The TASP code is free for any use. I am not allowed to copyright since I am 
a Government employee and much of my implementation is done on my 
Government time. The HRL, LLC and MSU code in the TASP implementation have 
copyright statements that allow people to make use of it for any purpose. 
You only need to leave their copyright statement in if you derive code from 
their code. So if somebody took the TASP VSIPL implementation and changed a 
bunch of stuff for a particular piece of hardware, and added some sort of 
GPL copyright on with the other copyrights, I don't see why the could not 
do that. I am not a lawyer so I don't understand all the copyright issues, 
but I know the intent of the TASP VSIPL code is to jump start anybody who 
wants to do a VSIPL implementation, either free or comercial, or who just 
wants to learn about VSIPL..

                Randy Judd



At 12:48 AM 11/07/2000 -0500, Robert W. Brewer wrote:
> > > I may try to optimize parts of the TASP implementation
> > > for my target du jour.
>
> > Will you share?  For free?  For profit?
>
>I'd probably like to share via the LGPL if possible.
>But I'm no licensing expert or lawyer, so I don't know
>if that would be compatible with the licenses currently
>on the TASP code.  Of coures this is all just talk until
>I actually get off my duff and write something.
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts on the licensing issues?
>
>-Rob
>--
>Robert W. Brewer
>Jesus rules!