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Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com> schrieb am 28. October 2012:

> > 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.

What he can be blamed for, though, is the way he left the project.
There should have been some kind of documentation of what he did and
why. The docs should have been detailed enough to allow the next
developer to pick-up the leads where he left. Given the state of
the project, this would have involved lots of todos and pointers to
gaps that need to be filled. Yes, documentation eats resources -- more
than expected -- always... Still, it would have been way better if
the toporouter had been even less usable but better documented. About a
year ago, I casually looked for documentation. I was curious how the
toporouter actually worked. The closest I could find, was a list of
literature, Anthony had assembled -- but nothing on the geda-toporouter
itself.


(Can't check the wiki right now, because geda-project is down :-| )
By the way: The internet archive does not seem to store geda-project.org
in its data base. 
       http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geda-project.org
Is this deliberate?


>  I wonder
> if he'd consider granting a special license to the gEDA project to
> include it?

The code Anthony produced during his GSoC time, was pushed to git-head
of pcb. It is in pcb/src/toporouter.* So it is technically included. By
default this code path is switched off. You can activate it at build
time with an option to configure.


> (his current code)  I mean, after all, as I understand it,
> he derived value from gEDA...

Part of it was of course 5000 USD via the GSoC grant.


> he used it as a base to start from,
> without which his work would've been made FAR more complex and
> time-consuming.

His last messages on the list made it very clear, that he did not want
to be bugged by geda people anymore.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/33876/match=anthony+toporouter

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