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Re: MTL license





On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote:

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I believe this license is non-free in multiple ways, and is another
unfortunate example of "license NIH".  There will be some people who
don't agree with the non-freeness of some of the above, but I think the
lack of permission to distribute binaries is clear-cut, unless it exists
and I'm not seeing it.

Thanks for the analysis. Ok, I'll forget about using MTL. Looks like the project isn't very active anyway (possibly because it is non-free :-)) and Blitz++ (which is in Debian) does the same kind of thing and is better.

BTW, what does `another unfortunate example of "license NIH"' refer to?

                                                                Faheem.



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