On Oct 14, 2006, at 6:22 PM, William Stein 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? If it wasn't GPL, I probably wouldn't be contributing. That's not to say I couldn't be persuaded to release certain things under a less restrictive license. I just feel the GPL is the safest default option for me in terms of protecting my time investment. I guess for me it's important for the same reason that attribution is so important in academic circles. David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
