Ondrej:
> > Povray is not open source (so it has to be in Debian non-free), so I
> > don't think SAGE should depend on or use povray.
Ondrej, thanks for sharing your opinion.
Boothby:
> Sage doesn't need to distribute / depend upon non-free software.
> However, it does have interfaces to lots of non-free software, like Magma,
> Mathematica, etc.
+1
A major goal of Sage has always been to:
unify existing mathematical-related software, both free and commercial.
Though it is annoying that the license for
povray is not GPL-compatible, povray is still very interesting
software, and making
it easy for people to combine the functionality of Povray with Sage
just makes sense.
The Goals for SAGE:
(1) Provide a cross-platform distribution of free open source
mathematical software that is easy for anybody to build, modify, etc.
(2) Provide a new library of functionality that ties (1) together,
and functionality-wise provides a viable free alternative to Maple,
Mathematica, Matlab, and Magma.
(3) Provide interfaces to a huge range of existing mathematical software.
-- William
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