On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 7:48 PM William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dima: >> >> If we concentrated on facilitating the latter, rather than on >> distribution packages, it could have been there now. > > > +1 > > Nils: > > I have yet to see a convincing example where chopping up core architecture > > of sagemath (like the coercion framework, the category framework, etc) > > leads to usable bits for other projects (that get used!) It would be > > interesting to see something like that, particularly to evaluate what > > direction modularization should take. > > Licensing is a critical part of evaluating this. For example, mpmath is BSD > licensed. Even if chopping up the core of Sage produced things that are > useful, a lot of projects wouldn't touch them due to the GPLv3 license. > (Networkx used to be GPL licensed and they somehow managed to relicense as > BSD.) Michael Orlitzky dismissed my comments about licensing in this > thread, and I really wish he were correct.
Sage crucially depends on GPLd things: GMP, mpfr, mpc, Flint, Pari, GAP, Singular, ppl. It's a bit moot to wish that Sage was BSD licensed, in view of this. I also don't get your point about mpmath - as it also depends on GMP etc. > > William > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CACLE5GDB9Yz%3DhUnOG5rVNWStWK-CyyTTW4iDTx2mF%2BL_QNW8fA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq28-fcYSvNurhZui4uAkT5TE-xDD61OTOn8%2BShcn1pW1g%40mail.gmail.com.
