Hi William, I believe you are the one that is confused about the GPL. The GPL is a form of copyright that is provided with a piece of work. In this case I permit people to use Wykobi under the terms of the GPL open source license as opposed to say the CPL, LGPL or the Mozilla license.
As for commercial use, if you bothered to understand the FSF's definition of derivative works you would know it is a necessity for anyone wanting to use the code in a commercial environment not to have to deal with the viral effects of the GPL. I suggest in the future you actually "know" or at least become familiar with what you are talking about before you make such comments, as it does not bode well for someone that supposedly has tenure. Arash Partow __________________________________________________ Be one who knows what they don't know, Instead of being one who knows not what they don't know, Thinking they know everything about all things. http://www.partow.net On Aug 11, 9:47 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Another GPL one is Wykobi > > (www.wykobi.com). > > Wykobi has no documentation, is very new (version 0.0.03), and > I'm pretty sure the author(s) are totally confused about what the > GPL is. The claim to make Wykobi available under the GPL but > only for non-commercial use -- which doesn't make sense because > "GPL + non-commercial" is non-GPL compatible license. The GPL > doesn't allow restrictions against commercial use. Anyway, Wykobi > unfortunately isn't really 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
