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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:59:07 -0400
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com>
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Subject: Re: toporouter, was Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf (Was gEDA/PCBs
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On 10/28/2012 03:44 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>   So what happened with that again?  I seem to recall that someone
>> here pissed the guy off, and he went away?
> 
> Anthony decided to make a living off the toporouter, but the GPL terms
> were incompatible with his needs, so he rewrote it, in a (to him) more
> appropriate language.  Hence, no more updates.

  Ahhh.  Well, I suppose we can't really blame him for that.  I wonder
if he'd consider granting a special license to the gEDA project to
include it? (his current code)  I mean, after all, as I understand it,
he derived value from gEDA...he used it as a base to start from, without
which his work would've been made FAR more complex and time-consuming.

> I have all the relevent research papers if someone wants to take it
> over.

  My brain lacks a math co-processor; sadly I can't volunteer to tackle
that.

              -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA