RE: Response from Geotechnical Software Services

[Gilbert Peffer]

Hi,
Sorry it took that long to pick up on this issue.

Although copying the HTML code of the list is a matter of seconds, there is
the disadvantage of maintenance. So to get this done, I we should indeed
just link to the original list. I'll create an HTML document with that link
and upload it into the Porject Documentation Area, if that's OK with
everybody.
Best regards

Gilbert

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Marco Marchioro [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Enviado el: 17 January 2001 14:15
> Para: Gilbert Peffer
> Asunto: Re: [Quantlib-users] Response from Geotechnical Software
> Services
>
>
> Hi all,
>          to resolve the question of the copyright I think it is better to
> write a page in which we
> link to the guideline page and then we just give list of topics where we
> have a different
> opinion. Otherwise, somebody would have to rewrite completely
> that long page.
>          ciao,
>                  Marco.
>
> At 15:12 01/01/15 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hi Nando,
> >I received this reply to my queries about copyright issues for the style
> >guidelines. Unfortunately I don't know much about copyright
> issues either,
> >so I welcome any comment to the reply I attach below.
> >Best regards
> >Gilbert
> >
> >
> > > -----Mensaje original-----
> > > De: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]]En
> nombre de Jacob
> > > Dreyer
> > > Enviado el: 06 January 2001 06:24
> > > Para: Gilbert Peffer
> > > Asunto: Re: guideline copyright
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Gilbert,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your interest in the coding guideline project.
> > >
> > > I am sure you guys have more experience than me regarding
> > > copyrights and open source and the various issues in that
> > > respect, and I whould be grateful for any advices you could
> > > give me regarding the different options I/you have and what
> > > this will mean for me, my guide, you and your version of the
> > > guide now and in the future.
> > >
> > > As you might have noticed there is also a related "coding
> > > practice" guideline which I have great belief in, but that
> > > I unfortunately not have had the time to complete. It whould
> > > have been great to have a joint project started to work on
> > > that guide, but as it is to some degree build on the advices
> > > of Scott Meyers, I am sure there could be some copyright twist
> > > there as well?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Jacob Dreyer
> > > General Manager
> > > Geotechnical Software Services
> > > Stavanger - Norway
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Gilbert Peffer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > We have been reading your C++ Programming Style Guidelines
> with great
> > > > interest and would like to use them in an open-source project
> > > as our base
> > > > guidelines for the C++ part of that project.
> > > >
> > > > However, some of the software developers would want to add
> > > rules or alter a
> > > > few of the rules. We were thinking of reproducing your
> > > guidelines and adapt
> > > > them to our needs, but this obviously requires your permission
> > > because of
> > > > the copyright status. Could you please let me know if you were
> > > prepared to
> > > > grant us this permission, and under what conditions.
> > > >
> > > > The open source project is called QuantLib and is hosted by
> SourceForge,
> > > > more details of which you can find at its home page
> > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/quantlib/.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards
> > > >
> > > > The QuantLib Development Team
> > >
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Quantlib-users mailing list
> >[hidden email]
> >http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/quantlib-users
>

[Ferdinando Ametrano-6]

Hi all

Gilbert wrote:
>Although copying the HTML code of the list is a matter of seconds, there is
>the disadvantage of maintenance. So to get this done, I we should indeed
>just link to the original list. I'll create an HTML document with that link
>and upload it into the Porject Documentation Area, if that's OK with
>everybody.

I would suggest you post here (in plain text) the summary of the topics
where we have a different opinion. So everybody get a chance to review them.

Then we can submit our changes to Geotechnical for inclusion into their
page. If they accept them we can link to their page, or even better get a
permission to copy their page so to freeze the version we like.

If they reject them we'll just create a page with our modified topics and a
link to their original page.

I'm not enough qualified to fully answer their questions:
 > I am sure you guys have more experience than me regarding
 > copyrights and open source and the various issues in that
 > respect, and I whould be grateful for any advices you could
 > give me regarding the different options I/you have and what
 > this will mean for me, my guide, you and your version of the
 > guide now and in the future.


ciao -- Nando