On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, William Stein wrote: > > On 8/14/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Whatever the fact of the case, I find the tone of this email >> offensive. I'm sure I am not the only one. I think an apology is >> called for. > > I'm very sorry for not carefully reading the email before moderating > it "send" -- I usually just check that postings aren't blatant spam. > In the future I'll be more careful when moderating messages. > > -- William
i interprted john's statement to mean that arash owes you, william, an apology, and if that is what he meant, i heartily agree. -kyle > >> On 8/14/07, Arash Partow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> John Cremona >> >>> >> > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://www.williamstein.org > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
