From koffice-devel  Sat Jul 19 11:17:18 2008
From: "Alvaro Soliverez" <asoliverez () gmail ! com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:17:18 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Question about XIRR in financial.cpp
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Hello Stefan, Sascha,
thanks a lot to both of you.

Regards,
Alvaro

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Stefan Nikolaus <
stefan.nikolaus@kdemail.net> wrote:

>  On Friday 18 July 2008 16:47:16 Stefan Nikolaus wrote:
>
> > On Friday 18 July 2008 16:14:34 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>
> > > Hello Stefan,
>
> > > thanks a lot for the prompt answer.
>
> > > After some more debugging, I found a bug in our method that triggers an
>
> > > infinite loop. The XIRR method in koffice has a way to prevent this.
> And
>
> > > given that it is according to the OpenFormula spec, I think it would be
>
> > > better to use that one.
>
> > >
>
> > > I will adapt the function work in KMyMoney. It is not possible to just
>
> > > link to it, because there are major difference in data structures.
>
> > >
>
> > > Since KMyMoney is GPL v2 or later, and the file here (
>
> > >
> http://api.kde.org/koffice-api/koffice-apidocs/kspread/html/financial_8cp
>
> > >p- source.html#l02034) is GPLv2 only, I will create a separate class
> with
>
> > > only the methods I need and copy the corresponding copyright notice.
>
> > > Is this ok with you? I see that you are one of the copyright holders in
>
> > > the file.
>
> >
>
> > The XIRR function was written by Sascha Pfau (CC'ed).
>
> >
>
> > @Sascha: Is it okay/possible to relicense this code as GPL version 2 or
>
> > later?
>
> Sascha gave his okay to relicense the code, so you can just copy it over to
> your project.
>
> --
>
> Stefan Nikolaus
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<div dir="ltr">Hello Stefan, Sascha,<br>thanks a lot to both of you.<br><br>Regards,<br>Alvaro<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Stefan Nikolaus &lt;<a href="mailto:stefan.nikolaus@kdemail.net">stefan.nikolaus@kdemail.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;"><div class="Ih2E3d">
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">On Friday 18 July 2008 16:47:16 Stefan Nikolaus wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; On Friday 18 July 2008 16:14:34 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; Hello Stefan,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; thanks a lot for the prompt answer.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; After some more debugging, I found a bug in our method that triggers an</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; infinite loop. The XIRR method in koffice has a way to prevent this. And</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; given that it is according to the OpenFormula spec, I think it would be</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; better to use that one.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt;</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; I will adapt the function work in KMyMoney.  It is not possible to just</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; link to it, because there are major difference in data structures.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt;</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; Since KMyMoney is GPL v2 or later, and the file here (</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; <a href="http://api.kde.org/koffice-api/koffice-apidocs/kspread/html/financial_8cp" target="_blank">http://api.kde.org/koffice-api/koffice-apidocs/kspread/html/financial_8cp</a></p>

</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt;p- source.html#l02034) is GPLv2 only, I will create a separate class with</p><div class="Ih2E3d">
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; only the methods I need and copy the corresponding copyright notice.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; Is this ok with you? I see that you are one of the copyright holders in</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; &gt; the file.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt;</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; The XIRR function was written by Sascha Pfau (CC&#39;ed).</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt;</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; @Sascha: Is it okay/possible to relicense this code as GPL version 2 or</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">&gt; later?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p>
</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Sascha gave his okay to relicense the code, so you can just copy it over to your project.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p>
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