On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:41 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, I think NAG chose the "non-commercial only" license on purpose. > We have discussed the issue here before and everybody agrees that it > is GPL incompatible. But I have little hope that Sage's potential > interest in Aldor would get somebody to change the license. A "non- > commercial only" Open Source license is often the kiss of death to a > project. Abandoned by its commercial parent company, but not free in > reality it is neither here nor there. Either you make the code free > [your choice: GPL, LGPL, MIT, BSD] or you don't. It is either Open > Source code or it isn't, just like you can't be a little big > pregnant :)
Yes, just like QT...oh wait. A petition to really open source Aldor won't hurt I think. What is the worst that can happen? Yes, I know the answer "go and start one" :-( My not needed 2 cents, Alfredo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
