KDE Conquers Astrophysics With Kst

Telex4 writes "The Free Software community is constantly inundated with interesting new projects, but occasionally something crops up which is really special. Kst is just such a project. Started by Barth Netterfield, an astrophysicist, as a personal project to plot data from his experiments, it has now taken on a life of its own, being used in numerous academic projects, and finding funding from several government agencies. Intrigued by this project's success, and with a little prod from co-developer George Staikos, I interviewed Barth and George about kst, Free Software and physics."

Comments

Funding

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm glad that Kst has funding from the United States government. I am however, concerned that Kst is using the GPL which restricts my ability to alter the code and make money from it.

I've already paid my taxes that funded this project. Should it not be a BSD licensed project where I can use the code however I want? Why does a tax-funded project have the ability to inflict its restrictions on me?

There can be only one....

[RayBender]

GNUPLOT. All others suck. I especially love the functional fitter.