GNU Grep & Sed: Fallout Within The GNU FSF Camp

[Pawlerson]

One does not simply tease Fallout players with a Linux port in the title without major disappointment after discovering it's not what we thought.

That's the point. Don't use this word in the future if it's not related to the greatest game ever made, please.

[crazycheese]

If they really wanted to use BSD code, then so be it. It wouldn't affect the existing BSD projects in any way (i.e. they would still be open source).

BSD code will live on to solve real problems in corporate, government, academic and open source environments (and already has). I mean, imagine the applications of LAPACK and BLAS (used by everyone) for example ... now try imagining the same for GSL.

LAPACK:
http://translate.google.com/translat...Fwiki%2FLAPACK

LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage) - Library open source containing solvers main tasks of linear algebra . Written in Fortran using another library BLAS .

There are also counterparts, maintain or even extend the functionality and provide better performance:

Intel ® MKL [1]
AMD ACML ™ [2]
Sun Performance Library [3]
NAG's LAPACK [4]
HP's mLib [5]

Some implementations have support for parallel execution of functions on a multiprocessor computer systems with shared memory. Analog computer with distributed memory are libraries ScaLAPACK [6] and PLAPACK [7] .

Use BSD. Surrender to eternal suckage.

[Larian]

Here though lies a true statement: Most GUIs that are pleasant to 99.999% of human beings are 99.999% unpleasant to people that actually want to get something real done.

And 93.051% of all statistics are just made up.

[nslay]

LAPACK:
http://translate.google.com/translat...Fwiki%2FLAPACK



Use BSD. Surrender to eternal suckage.

LAPACK is BSD licensed and everyone uses it. Who uses GSL?

[crazycheese]

LAPACK is BSD licensed and everyone uses it. Who uses GSL?

I see, you can't read - everyone has forked it and closed it down. Who uses LAPACK except BSD?

[nslay]

I see, you can't read - everyone has forked it and closed it down. Who uses LAPACK except BSD?

Those specialty ones are for high performance computing. Matlab, for example, still uses the original netlib version (BSD licensed). Don't believe me? Purchase Matlab and look in their library directory. I think octave uses LAPACK and BLAS (also the BSDL versions) also ...

Nobody uses GSL and why would you? If you're a developer (open source or not) and you want to use your own license ... would you pick GSL to do your math computations? GSL is not free. It's fine if you use GPL though.

And let's not forget other high impact libraries such as libpng (also BSDL) ...

EDIT: I'm mistaken, libpng is not BSDL.

My point is that I suspect that BSDL code (particularly when dealing with libraries) will be preferred over GPL and LGPL code ... and subsequently be more widely adopted and more widely used to solve everything from trivial to big problems.

[gens]

i vote for the WTFPL licence

note this topic is not about licences, but about FSF and GNU

[yogi_berra]

note this topic is not about licences, but about FSF and GNU

Except you can't criticize the gnu bureaucracy on phoronix, which is why gnu grep's and gsed's maintainer stepped down and why gnutls is no longer a part of gnu.

[nslay]

i vote for the WTFPL licence

note this topic is not about licences, but about FSF and GNU

I'm apologize for my digressions.

[gens]

Except you can't criticize the gnu bureaucracy on phoronix, which is why gnu grep's and gsed's maintainer stepped down and why gnutls is no longer a part of gnu.

by all means bash on
i'm just saying a license has nothing to do with the organization that made it

im also the first to say that the FSF way (american way) of doing things is bad for everybody
at least from what i see is their way