Re: ARPACK situation

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 03:04:55 +0000
"Lehoucq, Richard" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jordi,
> 
> Thank you for your well articulated email. ARPACK is the property of
> Rice University and so any "upstream" decision ultimately resides
> with Rice. 

But this is not really the question, is it? The ARPACK code is BSD
licensed, which means anyone can take it and do practically anything
with it. Creating a fork is allowed. Or even changing the license.

Since upstream has no interest in maintaining the code, we're talking
about building a community to maintain an "official" distribution.
Otherwise things will be as they used to: every software project will
actually carry a fork of their own, with a different applied patch set.
And this is far from optimal.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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