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These are examples of e-mails sent to packages owners asking for a release of their package under GPL compatible licenses. | These are examples of e-mails sent to packages owners asking for a release of their package under GPL compatible licenses. | ||
== real2rgb from File Exchange == | |||
* 12/10/2012 | |||
<pre> | |||
Dear Oliver Woodford, | |||
My name is Juan Pablo Carbajal, I am developer at Octave-Forge[1] a | |||
sibling project of GNU/Octave. I have downloaded your package real2rgb from | |||
the Matlab file exchange and I find it | |||
very useful. | |||
Would you like to contribute it to Octave-Forge? I know licensing issues are | |||
difficult topics and therefore I approach you with utter respect. | |||
If you accept this invitation to contribute code to Octave-Forge, I can | |||
offer | |||
you the following | |||
- You will be properly credited and your papers will be linked as well. | |||
- Maintenance of your function, test and demos will be taken over by the | |||
Octave and Octave-forge community. Of course you can continue contributing, | |||
and we will very happy to have you among us. I will also | |||
let you know of any bug report we get from the users. | |||
- I will take care of porting (code formatting, demos and test). | |||
- You function will be directly downloaded and installed from an | |||
Octave prompt (assuming it is packed inside real2rgb package): | |||
> pkg -forge install real2rgb | |||
The only thing that you need to do is to release your code under GPLv3 (we | |||
like this one :D ) or any license compatible with them, e.g. FreeBSD. I | |||
cannot use the downloaded the packages from the Matlab file exchange because | |||
it will be a violation of their "Terms of Use" (that code can be used only | |||
in | |||
Mathworks products). You need only to let me know that you allow me to | |||
redistribute your code under your free license of choice, I will | |||
take care of adding the header to each file of your package. | |||
In case you are interested, I can tell you about successful experiences of | |||
other researches contributing their work. For example the matGeom | |||
community[2] released under GPLv3 so that Octave-forge can mirror they | |||
package[3], since the package have enjoyed several new contributions and | |||
code | |||
optimization. A group form the technical | |||
university of Denmark[4] working on nonnegative matrix factorization also | |||
allowed us to redistribute their package under GPLv3. Biomechanics & | |||
Neurosciences researchers[5] have also changed their license to GPLv3 to | |||
allow us to produce packages out of their excellent algorithms. | |||
We have no other objective but to offer a truly free platform for the | |||
exchange of our research. I hope you join us! | |||
If you have any question or comments, please let me know without hesitation. | |||
Thank you very much for your excellent code! | |||
Regards, | |||
[1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/ | |||
[2] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/matgeom/index.php?title=Main_Page | |||
[3] http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Geometry_package | |||
[4] http://cogsys.imm.dtu.dk/toolbox/nmf/index.html | |||
[5] | |||
http://sites.google.com/site/systemsneurosciencegroup/people/stewart-heitmann | |||
</pre> | |||
== Gaussian Processes for machine learning == | == Gaussian Processes for machine learning == | ||