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| offer a truly free platform for the exchange of our research. I hope | | offer a truly free platform for the exchange of our research. I hope |
| you join us! | | you join us! |
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| + | Looking forward to your answer, |
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| + | Best regards, |
| + | </pre> |
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| + | * 27/3/2012 |
| + | <pre> |
| + | Dear Kasper Winther Joergensen, |
| + | |
| + | My name is Juan Pablo Carbajal, I am a developer of Octave-Forge[1]. I have downloaded the nmf toolbox 1-4-0 from your website 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 toolbox, 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 take care of code formatting, demos and test. |
| + | - You function will be directly downloaded and installed form an Octave terminal (assuming it is packed inside linear-algebra package): |
| + | >pkg -forge install linear-algebra |
| + | |
| + | 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. Chih-Jen Lin (author of the file nmf_cjlin in your toolbox) and Jingu Kim have already send me their permission to post their code in Octave-Forge. I hope you join us! |
| + | |
| + | In case you are interested, I can tell you about successful experiences of together researches contributing their work. For example the Matgeom community[2] released under GPLv3 so that Octave-forge can mirror they package[3]. Biomechanics & Neurosciences researchers[4] have also changed their license to GPLv3 to allow us to produce packages out of their excellent algorithms. We are trying to offer a truly free platform for the exchange of our research. |
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| Looking forward to your answer, | | Looking forward to your answer, |