Congratulations on the latest release.  I'm curious about the license 

change.  What concerns or issues prompted a switch to the AFL?



Thanks,

Chris



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Sean Luke wrote:

> The George Mason University Evolutionary Computation Laboratory and 

> Center for Social Complexity announce a new release of the ECJ 

> evolutionary computation library and MASON multiagent simulation 

> toolkit.  Both systems have seen major improvements and revisions 

> since the last release approximately eight months ago.  The two 

> systems are also being re-licensed under the Academic Free License 

> version 3.0.

>

> ECJ is being released in two versions: a backward-compatable version 

> (14) and a non-backward-compatible version (15) with significant 

> framework revisions.  The dual release will (hopefully) give people 

> some extra time to convert to the new version.  ECJ 14/15 also has 

> numerous bug-fixes, speed improvements, and a new package (spatial 

> embedding).

>

> ECJ can be found here:

>     http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/ecj/

>

> ECJ CVS access is also available at SourceForge, but sourceforge.net 

> has experienced a major hardware failure this past week and CVS access 

> is not expected for several days at the earliest.

>

>

> MASON 11 is a major revision of our multiagent simulator.  It sports a 

> new charting and tracking facility, several new problem domains, and a 

> very large number of bug fixes and improvements.

>

> MASON can be found here:

>     http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/mason/

>

> Sean Luke

>

>