Re: Fwd: mptoolbox source code

[Pascal Dupuis]

Hello,

good news: I forward an E-Mail I got from the mptoolbox author. He
sent the source code and agree on re-licensing under GPL v3.0. I'll
introduce an entry for the Socis Summer of Code.

 Best regards

Pascal

2013/6/25 Ben and Masako Barrowes <address@hidden>:
> Pascal,
>
> Thanks for contacting me. I think this is a great idea, and in fact have
> thought to perhaps try to get this working in Octave before, but have not
> had time. The class capability in Octave also was not ready a few years ago
> when I thought of doing this. I have made small contributions to Octave as
> well in the past, but not recently.
>
> I am attaching the current version of the toolbox. I agree to have the
> Octave version be released under GPLv3. Please keep me updated  every now
> and then. I do briefly look at the octave lists sometimes, but do not read
> every thread.
>
> The toolbox is not perfect nor complete by any means, but can provide a
> framework for high precision calculations. I had to write overloaded
> functions for the mp class, like plus.m and exp.m. One problem I ran into
> was that I would have to rewrite any function whose source was closed to me
> in Matlab, for example eig.m. This stopped me in what I was doing at the
> time. Octave should be much better in this regard.
>
> Please contact me with questions, and I will try to answer if I can.
>
> Good luck!!
> bb
>
>
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> ________________________________
> From: Pascal Dupuis <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 5:33 AM
> Subject: Fwd: mptoolbox source code
>
> Hello Ben,
>
> My name is Pascal Dupuis; I am a long-term Octave user and contributed
> some code to it.
>
> I was searching since a few time some way to deal with higher
> precision arithmetic, and was considering implementing a wrapper layer
> over GNU MPL. Then I found your toolbox on Matlab Central. Even if
> your code is under BSD license, the trouble is that, by downloading it
> from Matlab Central, I agree to abide to their conditions, i.e. use it
> under Matlab only.
>
> Could you be so kind to sent me directly one copy of the latest
> version ? I would like to test it under Octave, and eventually  make
> an Octave package of it. Improvements will of course be shared with
> you. Would you agree that the Octave version be released under the GPL
> v3 ? You and the original contributors will be of course credited,
> porting and maintenance will be done by the Octave and Octave-Forge
> community.
>
> Best regards
>
> Pascal Dupuis
>
>