On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 8:37 PM Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 at 20:19, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Mind you, Mathematica (!) bundles Flint (which is GPL, and depends on > > GPLd libraries). > > FLINT is LGPL as are its dependencies GMP and MPFR. > > I'm no expert on license terms but Wikipedia says: > > The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter > allows the work to be linked with (in the case of a library, "used > by") a non-(L)GPLed program, regardless of whether it is licensed > under a license of GPL family or other licenses. > > That suggests that LGPL rather than GPL is needed for Mathematica to > bundle FLINT in the way that it does.
Indeed, Flint is dual licensed under GPL and LGPL - so why don't we re-license sagelib under LGPL then. E.g. that's how gmpy2 is licensed: sage: gmpy2.license() 'The GMPY2 source code is licensed under LGPL 3 or later. The supported versions of the GMP, MPFR, and MPC libraries are also licensed under LGPL 3 or later.' I don't know whether it'd need a lot of individual approvals, but GPL->LGPL is certainly done quite often. E.g. GMP was relicenced under LGPL from version 6 on. Dima > > -- > Oscar > > -- > 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/CAHVvXxSqfrUkMSwOwg7zmfFUtDPFh34G7neiZHgbAEZ0_ibghw%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/CAAWYfq1QewV981iF6Sf_XuGmyrJWXwAsqSDjkU%3DJ2s6CQuxqAg%40mail.gmail.com.
