Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MuPAD mode for emacs - savannah.gnu.org

[Jaime E . Villate]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:40:40AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Nicolas M. Thiéry <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: MuPAD mode for emacs
> System name: mupacs
> Type: GNU
> 
> Description:
> mupacs is a lisp mode which provides support for editing MuPAD code 
> (automatic indentation,
> fontification, ...)
> It does not requires MuPAD, though it allows, as an option, to run MuPAD in a 
> subshell.
> 
> http://www-gat.univ-lille1.fr/~ramare/ServeurPerso/MuPADCombined/PageMuPAD.html
> 
> It\'s currently used by about 10 persons, but a much larger audience (in 
> particular among
> students) is indented soon. It will be distributed under GPL. Ideally, we 
> would like to have
> it eventually included in the emacs distribution. If you think this should 
> become a GNU project
> we would be glad to do that.
> 
> Some notes about MuPAD and free software:
> 
> MuPAD is a computer algebra system (www.mupad.de). The library of MuPAD is 
> being
> released under a free software license, but the kernel is still closed. This 
> may
> evolve in the future, since some people are starting to work on a clone of the
> kernel under a free software license.

I'm here to hear that, but as of today, MuPad continues to be proprietary
software, so we cannot host your project here, since it will be of no use to
our intended audience. When MuPad becomes Free Software, you can register your
project here.

Regards,
Jaime