> This is only perhaps ideal from the typical end user's point of view. > The GPL-style license is greatly preferred over the BSD/MIT as the > license for Sage by most Sage developers (this was discussed a lot > at Sage Days 2). In fact, several of the top contributors to Sage have > explicitly said they would not contribute to Sage if it were not licensed > under the GPL. It's very important to these people, who put a massive > amount of their time into Sage, that the code the write not just be > copied into Mathematica/Maple/Magma, etc., and sold for profit, > improved, etc., with nothing given in return.
By the way, the GPL licensing, generally, is the main thing that prevents me personally from contributing to SAGE. I never put anything I wrote under GPL and I am not going to (at least at this moment.) Comparing to the danger of copying the code that I wrote to Mathematica, Maple, or Magma, the GPL licensing (and FSF copyrighting) seems to be much worse :) Alec --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
