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Analysis of my project seems utterly mangled to me!

Somebody pointed out to me that you were propagating reports on the reduce-algebra projefdt at sourceforge for whihc I am one of the managers. Your analysis tools deliver results that I do not recognise at all as proper commentary about Reduce! Specifically you have (I believe) counted over 50000 lines of C code that is the output from a compiler as if it was key project source while the REAL source is elsewhere in Reduce's own language (and IS commented, than you very much). Your characterisation of licensing is deeply flawed (it is a BSD project and should NOT include GPL components as patr of what gets built - but it uses an LGPL 2 (NEVER LGPL 3) library, and the source of that may come with GPL test cases but they are part of that LIBRARY not part of Reduce itself. And WHY do you say there is some C# code in there. The list of contributors could be held to be deeply offensive, especvially to Tony Hearn who originated the project many years ago - to label him as responsible for some autoconf files (that he did not write) is silly. It is not clear to me how I can correct the information you display, and a brief review of your web-site did not reveal an obvious address to send you these observations in a more private way, which is what I would have preferred. Is there somebody who I can communicate with to get things at least slightly right? Sorry to be so forthright, but at present I find it hard to find much about Reduce that is correctly reported. Perhaps this is because it is mainly written in its own language?

arthurcnorman over 14 years ago