[Axiom-developer] Re: [Aldor-l] [fricas-devel] umlaut in Guess - mailing list for algebra

[Bill Page]

On 04 Sep 2007 09:53:18 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | Would this mean that Guess could not be included in any of the
> | existing Axiom forks (which are all licensed under modified BSD)?
> | Since Guess is a "library" package, would you consider releasing it
> | under LGPL instead?
>
> OpenAxiom has a contrib/ directory for packages that are released under
> different licenses, and not part of the OpenAxiom distribution.
>
> However, I'm not going to include any package against its authors'
> wishes or likes.   Authors who believe their work might be of value to
> others and would like to get them included in OpenAxiom are very much
> welcome.
>

Have you given any thought about how to package separately licensed
work such as this for inclusion into Axiom? As far as I know at the
present time none of the Axiom variants have an integral facility to
install optional library packages after installation. It would be nice
to be able to create a tarball in a format that was understood by some
')install ...' command.

Apparently in order to use a package like GUESS in the same manner as
if it had been installed during the Axiom build, it would be necessary
to at least update the database files. How can we do this?

Regards,
Bill Page.