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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/02/11 10:27, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> Dear FEniCS enthusiasts,
> 
> I am going to reiterate a concern that I tried to bring up earlier
> regarding the copyright consent forms. Please chime in with your views.
> 
> I understand the rationale behind using LGPL for core FEniCS components
> (e.g. DOLFIN and FFC). It makes sense to me that these projects could
> form a part of future (potentially proprietary) applications. The
> developers of such applications clearly have to bring in a lot of
> domain-specific knowledge. I can see why they might want to keep such
> knowledge proprietary, and I can see how moving to LGPL brings them into
> the community at least as users of FEniCS.
> 
> But the same logic doesn't hold (in my mind) for FEniCS Apps. Some of
> these function reasonably well and are already capable of solving select
> domain-specific problems. Aren't they, in a sense, closer to complete,
> immediately useful applications? Given this, does it make sense that
> they too should be released under LGPL? What is then to prevent someone
> from, say, slapping a GUI on a well-functioning solver and selling it as
> a tool?
> 

I'm not sure what you're advocating. That FEniCS Apps should be GPL?

Garth

> Harish
> 
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