>> Is there a problem with the license of the aldor compiler >> (aldor-combinat itself is GPL2). > > Yep, I believe so. From the website; Version 1.1 of Aldor has been > released in source form under the Aldor Public License 2.0. This allows > free non-commercial use, modification and re-distribution of Aldor > software > > This is only my personal opinion: "This allows free non-commercial use" > seems unacceptable to the principles of Sage. Am I mistaken or does this > not apply to the aldor compiler itself?
Well, "free non-commercial use" is incompatible with the GPL. The APL2 is incompatible with the GPL. Sage is GPL. I know that this causes endless problems of getting more people interested in Aldor. Unfortunately, I cannot make Aldor truely free. There are other people who must do it. However, what we do in Aldor-Combinat cannot be done so elegantly in any other language I know off. We learned a lot from MuPAD-combinat, but our design is completely different from MC, since Aldor is so powerful. Ralf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
