Your question is equivalent to, "Do we want to allow people to charge money for running Sage, but not redistributing it?"
I say, yes. Imagine a private contractor who uses Sage. Perhaps this person modifies their version of Sage to include a proprietary algorithm. Then, they charge their clients for work done using Sage. Obviously, they won't want to give away the farm by distributing this copy. Running the notebook for any purpose is no different than using any other code in the distribution. Go ahead and charge for it. On Mon, 5 May 2008, David Joyner wrote: > > Hi: > I'm wondering if this is allowed under the GPL and if so, if that is > what we want: > Joe Shmoe installs SAGE on a webserver, renames it say to SmMATH, and > charge a fee to anyone who wants to use it over the web. No indication that > it is open source or free or anything. (Note: For example, Shmoe could > be Wolfram.) > I think the Affero license might cover this. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License > Should the notebook code be relicensed? Note that AGPL is compatible with > GPLv3 but not compatible with GPLv2. > - David Joyner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
