Re: Developer Registration Request

Hi

Please remember to reply-to-all such that everybody on the list can take
part in the discussion.

søn, 31 05 2009 kl. 16:49 -0500, skrev dmelliott:
> Dear Mr. Hauberg,

Call me Søren; no need to be formal :-)

>     Thank you for your kind consideration.
>
>     The package placement decision is up to anybody who is
> familiar with your overall organizational system, and thus
> competent to make it; this is certainly not myself.

I'm also asking the other developers for advice. Would the 'Integration'
package be a suitable place?

>     Along these lines, please feel totally free to rename to
> make consistent with the existing scheme.

Is the name, 'integrator', specific enough? It sounds very general to
me, but as I said, I'm no expert in the field.

>     Copyright: First, I don't think that this is copyrightable in
> the same sense that the value of "e" is not, and  the concepts
> are straight from the first week of everybody's Numerical
> Analysis 101.  However, the programming itself is not a
> fact of nature, and thus might be.

Sounds like you would prefer to put this function in the public domain.
If that's what you prefer, then this is just fine.

>   Second, my goal is to help make Octave the most solid
> numerical analysis application available.  For this to be
> true, there need be as few people involved in any potential
> legal conflicts as possible.

But as long as no Octave organisation exist I don't think it makes sense
to assign copyright to it. If you assign copyright to a non-existing
party then I guess (I'm no lawyer) nobody owns the copyright, which
sounds like a legal nightmare to me.

Søren
>
>
> dmelliott
>
>


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