On Jul 29, 2007, at 12:03 , William Stein wrote: > On 7/29/07, Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Yes, I cannot release SAGE under GPL V3 until: > > 1. Every single component of SAGE, including PARI, > is licensed under a GPL V3 compatible license, and > > 2. I get permission from all copyright holders of new code included > in the SAGE library itself (probably >= 50 people) to switch > from > GPL V2 to "GPL V2 or later". > > I could start with 2. without having to wait for 1. The problem is > that it's a lot of busywork that I have no desire whatever to deal > with, since I much prefer doing mathematics and coding. > > My current plan is to stop including new > versions of any packages that switch to GPL V3 only licenses, > wait to see what happens with all the packages that SAGE depends > on that are currently not GPL V3 compatible, then revisit this > questions later. We should also watch to see how the Debian > project deals with GPLv3 problems. It will be interesting > to see how the Linux kernel deals with this issue, since they > also have copyright spread over hundreds of people and I > think they are currently GPL V2 only. > > Does that sound reasonable to sage-devel?
This sounds fine to me. Although I'm not a large stake-holder in the SAGE source base, I'm leery of GPL V3 for a variety of reasons, and am not sanguine about switching to it. Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds ----------- I'm beginning to like the cut of his jibberish. ----------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
