On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 7:56 PM Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 11:47 -0700, William Stein wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > I'm not being dismissive, I'm just trying to understand what the > problem is. Does the license stop people from doing things that they > want to do, or is the issue that people don't understand licenses? > They're very different problems.
If could be that particular "angel investors" have a beef with GPL (some surely do), and push this through by only funding things which don't use GPL. > > -- > 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/e6274d873c64cefe3dba4e1e122cf2cb6f4b5d77.camel%40orlitzky.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/CAAWYfq2SG%3Dq8wC%3DXBQFnhymc2uJVM_v0JPaZhwU%2BYBAbdJrqtA%40mail.gmail.com.
