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STEMCalc IV is going full Apache!

Release 4.1 is out now, and it's a miracle that I was able to perform the beta-testing myself before releasing the final version. Took a lot of debugging and most importantly: open-source libraries. As I stated in my previous blog post, starting from this version, I'll be using the Apache Commons Lang library for the project. Apache Commons libraries for Java are known to be very popular to developers, and tend to be used whenever they could be. In future releases I'll probably include more Apache Commons Libraries, most likely Commons IO and/or Commons Math. These libraries are the best when it comes to handling problems related to the program, so it really makes me more concentrated on the mathematics part, which I found out to have many fundamental mistakes in the previous version. Last, but not least, I've licensed STEMCalc IV to the Apache License version 2.0 starting from Release 4.1. For more information on the license, check out the license.txt file included in the new release folder. I might change the license to GNU General Public License 3 in the future if I see fit, because the Apache License, it isn't bad, but who knows? GPL3 might suit the project better. For now, Apache License is the way to go, and it will be for a couple more releases, as I'm currently focused on the technical parts of the project.

All the best,

STEMCalc IV Head Developer,
Matrixians 14.

Posted by Khoi Phan 2018-07-17

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