> 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?
Correct. I guess it's confusing since the output of said program _is_ a program. >> 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. I can't either. What is meant by "application"? I would like the experience for the user to be 100% seamless. Does that mean that it's an application? What I really want to do is include an entire sage distribution in Sage.app so that you can dowload it, drag it to Applications, launch it, and go. I don't want the user to have to compile things, etc. That would mean a Mac application that at some point was compiled (though not by me) and was handed to me by a closed- source application together with a compiled version of sage which is GPL. What is meant by compiled code? Anything other than text? I guess I'll have to read the GPL again (it's been several years). Ugh. If only I could live my life without licensing worries... > 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? I haven't. For most cases it's probably easier to tell them to download Fluid since all you have to do is type in a URL. As far as I know, I am the only one who has really hacked Fluid to do something it was never intended to do (be a vehicle for another application). -Ivan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
