Asking HP to open source HP calculator software and patents

[pdo]

It would also be good to re-license the HP Tools software suite (http://www.hpcalc.org/details/4263) so that it can be effectively maintained.

The current license forbids redistribution of modified copies, so it is currently not possible to build the tools on a modern computer without patching them. I have a patch to fix some of the problems (http://www.cloudycat.com, also at http://www.hpcalc.org/details/7860), but it would be nice to host the code on, say, github, to ensure its survival going into the future.

Paul