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Hi I have decided to teach myself C and about the steam tables I use for my daily work by programming a set of IAPWS - IF 97 steam tables. It is not yet complete but what I have so far is here. https://C4rnot@bitbucket.org/C4rnot/if97lib I was wondering how I might eventually go about making it available once done. Have I come to the right place? There is actually a set of steam tables called Freesteam written already by Jon Pye, which I believe is under a GPL licence (sourceforge is down today so I can't actually open its homepage a the moment to confirm) and includes bindings for Python and Ascend which you might consider packaging. I had some difficulty getting the .deb provided by freesteam to work on Ubuntu, as there appeared to be something wrong with the Ascend package (which I apt-got) on Ubuntu, but it worked when I compiled it (without the ascend bindings) rather than installing the .deb freesteam.sourceforge.net/ I decided to carry on with my own set nevertheless, as I'd like to make an excel and open/libre office add in. I've opted for the Boost licence so that I leave myself the opportunity of making the Excel version chargeable and anyone else the opportunity of using it freely commercially - since the IF97 steam formulation itself is already public domain I don't see the need for the GPL protections for it. It appeared to be the closest to a "do what you like with it" licence. I presume the Boost licence fits with the Debian Free Software Guidelines? Best Regards Martin Lord |