On 9/23/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Michael Abshoff pointed out to me that GMP 4.2.2 has been released! > Very exciting. The > release notes list exactly one new feature: > > From http://gmplib.org/gmp4.2.html > > New features of GMP 4.2.2 > * License is now LGPL version 3. > Bugs: > ... > > The obvious question is whether the _current_ version of Sage can > include or even > link to GMP 4.2.2 or any future version of GMP. The answer is *NO*. For > more, > see below. > > The Sage project as an overall project is -- and must be -- released > under GPL v2 only, > at least right now. I don't know when or if this will change. It is > not within my power. > Only time will tell. > > > http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq > > which has a nice matrix showing what is legal to combine. > > This table very clearly says that a GPL v2 project cannot link in an > LGPL v3 library. > We will thus not be upgrading the Sage GMP package to 4.2.2 right now. > > Thoughts?
The obvious suggestion is to ask them to license under "LGPLv2 or greater". It can't hurt to ask. > > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
