On Dec 10, 2007 11:31 AM, wrote > hello, prof. stein. congratulations on the tool so many of us have been > waiting for. may it flourish beyond expectations. >
Thanks! > i work as an actuary and software developer at an employee benefits > consulting firm. i teach java, my undergrad degrees are from MIT (applied > math & comp sci), and i'm working on a ph.d. part time in Info Sci at drexel. > > may i use Sage tools in a commercial environment ? YES! Absolutely! Basically the *only* constraint is that if you make changes to Sage itself and redistribute this changed version of Sage publicaly, then you must make these changes available to us so that we can put them into the standard version of Sage (if we want). Otherwise, you'll free to use as many copies of Sage as you want completely for free to make money, etc., without paying any license fees at all. > i'm planning on being a user presently, and maybe a contributor in the > future. Any contributions will be greatly appreciated. > i just want to use Sage tools for writing 'executable specifications' which > look like real math, without spending $2,500 per person. > > Sage may be our saviour. It might be. Note that writing "executable specifications" of course isn't at all what we have designed or specially used Sage for so far, so Sage may or may not meet your needs. If it doesn't, please let me know why, so that the Sage development team can keep that in mind when deciding on what to implement next. > > thanks for your inspiration and perspiration. > > ...... You're welcome! -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
