[Users] Numerical arrangement

[Barry Wardell]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 13 Oct 2015, at 19:20, Barry Wardell <barry.wardell at ucd.ie> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just realised that AEILocalInterp was moved to
>>>
>>> https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/numerical
>>>
>>> Would it be better for this to be under the cactuscode team instead, i.e.
>>>
>>> https://bitbucket.org/cactuscode/numerical
>>>
>>> AEILocalInterp is nothing to do with the Einstein equations.
>>>
>>
>> I believe the reasoning for including it in the Numerical arrangement as
>> opposed to, for example, CactusNumerical is that AEILocalInterp is licensed
>> under the GPL and the author does not wish to relicense it under the LGPL.
>> Since Cactus thorns are required to be licensed under the LGPL it cannot be
>> include with Cactus, and so the idea was to have it as part of a new
>> arrangement under the Einstein Toolkit instead.
>>
>>
>> Hi Barry,
>>
>> Yes, we didn't want to (couldn't) make it part of Cactus, i.e. in an
>> arrangement starting with "Cactus".  But I thought we were going to still
>> host it under the Cactus BitBucket account, since being under Einstein
>> Toolkit doesn't make much sense.  It is of interest to a wider community
>> than just those using Cactus for GR.  The idea was to have a generic
>> location for free software Cactus thorns which are not part of Cactus.
>>
>
> Historically -- and way before the Einstein Toolkit existed -- the
> cactuscode.org CVS (and later SVN) servers hosted many Cactus-related
> repositories for non-Cactus thorns.
>

I have moved the arrangement to the Cactus BitBucket account, as suggested.

Barry
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