Question about GSL

[Tim Wessman]

(09-03-2015 09:08 AM)douganc Wrote:  Do you know if the Gnu Scientific Library is incorporated into XCAS / HP Prime Software ??
If not, will it be incorporated into XCAS / Prime in a future release. ?

Thank You for your help.

While I cannot completely discount this, there are two major reasons I can see that would be nearly impossible to overcome at this time.

1. Licensing - since it uses GPL, the entire calculator software would then fall under the GPL. Since there are components in there for which HP is only licensing from others that would eliminate the possibility at this time. HP cannot re-license and release those components as source since we do not own the copywrite.

2. Size - while I am not certain the total size of the whole suite, I really suspect it is much too large to put on Prime. Currently, there is a limit of 32MB since the binary resides in RAM while executing. Every bit of space you can reduce that means more space for the end user.