On Jun 4, 11:03 am, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
I agree with you because algorithms of CAS's can be patented in the
future and GPLv3 protects againts this
> 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.
>
I think the problem arises only if one merges code from GPLv2 and
GPLv3...but one program can use the other without problem...
> Michel
>
> PS. I think the GPL3 is compatible with the Apache licence.
> This issue came up recently.
Yes, it will probably be compatible in the final release.
>
> 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
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