On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Ivan Andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. >
The following might be acceptable. (1) The user downloads a Fluid app. (2) The user downloads a separate sage-2.10.2.dmg (say). (3) When Fluid app runs it asks for the location of the sage dmg, extracts it "into itself", and uses that. Then the combination of Fluid with Sage only happens after the user installs the programs, so it doesn't violate the GPL in letter. Also sage-2.10.2.dmg also works by itself, and decoupling Fluid and sage-*dmg will make it so people can easily upgrade sage without you having to make a new sage+fluid application. Is this possible? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
