On 10/14/06, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > Since you think it is a poor choice, I better respond. > My impression is that in fact the SAGE developers who want > to keep copyright do understand "how difficult this might make > it in the future to incorporate their work into software with > different licensing conditions." In fact, that difficulty > is precisely what they want. A major reason they are motivated > and willing to contribute their code to SAGE (under the GPL), is > that they know beyond a doubt that their work can never be > incorporated into a commercial product, (etc.), even if I > totally sold out and tried to do so. > > SAGE developers -- what do you all think?
I agree that the open source development model is the best one. However, if you (William or the SAGE Foundation) asked for the copyright of my code (which is what Bill was talking about originally) I probably wouldn't care that much as long as it stayed GPL'd. > > William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
