On 9/23/07, Alec Mihailovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Is it your personal distate for the GPL, or is that you don't want to be forced to license code under the GPL. > 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 :) You can contribute code to Sage under the BSD license. Some of the code I wrote for Sage I licensed under BSD, and in fact a huge amount of the code in the Sage distribution is BSD licensed (e.g., all of numpy and scipy). Contributions to Sage under any GPL-compatible license are very welcome. -- 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
