On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Ivan Andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fluid has been updated fixing the largest (in my mind) bug. > Therefore, I have created a version of Sage.app which I am happy > enough with to share with people. I have added instructions on the > wiki at http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageMacApplication and would like to > add a pre-packaged version so that it is very simple for users to > download a working application. > > The problem that I worry about though, is that Fluid is not open > sourced. It creates a Mac OS X application (a directory structure > really) which I modify to fit the needs of sage (e.g. including sage > in the application). Can anyone comment on the legality of > distributing a closed source application (or at least the output of > one) along with a GPL'ed one?
Just for clarification, you're only talking about distributiong the OUTPUT of a non-GPL'd program? You're not distributing the program itself at all but just the output of the program, right? > Will I run into problems from the GPL > side of things? I recently asked about permission on the Fluid side, > so hopefully that won't be an issue... You can't distribute gpl'd and non-gpl'd compiled code together as a single application. I can't tell yet whether you're even doing that. > > Also what are the possibilities of getting an "official" Mac > application? Either Platypus or Fluid based (or both) would probably > be okay with me, though I think they both need some work before they > are fully satisfactory. > > Comments and suggestions of any kind are more than welcome. As soon > as I am comfortable distributing it, I will package up a version and > put it on the wiki. I bet this is going to be fine. It's like using an MSI installer to distribute firefox on windows or something. Can you find *any* precedents, i.e., examples of GPL'd program distributed using Fluid? Screen shots? -- 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
