Personally I think the extra patent protection provided by the GPL3 would be a good thing for SAGE and for open source CAS's in general. But I assume this issue depends mainly on the software SAGE itself depends on. I might be mistaken but I think Maxima is GPL2 only.
Michel PS. I think the GPL3 is compatible with the Apache licence. This issue came up recently. On Jun 4, 10:32 am, kaimmello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last draft of GPLv3 has been released. Richard Stallman himself > has said that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible, i.e. you can't merge > code with this two licenses. I was wondering what SAGE will do about > this. Will it remain GPLv2? Or will it become GPLv3? Personally I hope > the second. > > Regards > > Tiziano --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
