Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [VOLK] SIMD accelerated Mersenne-Twister

[Tom Rondeau]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Johnathan Corgan <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Martin Braun <address@hidden> wrote:

 

Since you're not the copyright holder of the original code, you have no
way of transferring said copyright to the FSF.

I'm not sure what the correct way to do this is. An out-of-tree approach
will definitely work, since the licenses are compatible according to
lists provided by e.g. the FSF.
If the authors would agree to a copyright transfer of this copy of the
code, that'll also work but it's annoying to get that.

​While all the above is true, we do occasionally make exceptions for including non-FSF owned code inside GNU Radio, as long a the licenses are compatible.  We try to avoid this as much as possible and have actually been removing such code a little at a time as it becomes possible.​

In this case, I don't think we'd want to include it, but I wanted to clarify the above.​

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Johnathan Corgan
Corgan Labs - SDR Training and Development Services

http://corganlabs.com

I agree with Johnathan. While this is really great work, Stefan, I'm not sure it's worth any great hassle on our part to manage it. I'm mostly saying this because I don't see where this would be used in large part in real-world applications. Most of our randomness is necessary in simulation-based flowgraphs. While it's always good to speed up your simulation, it's not something that's absolutely critical.

I think the best case scenario is that we get the copyright agreement from the original author. Barring that, if you provide a compelling enough case for including it within GNU Radio's source code as opposed to an OOT project, we can discuss and reconsider.

Tom