Jonathan wrote: Hi, > Since no one else has responded, I'll go ahead and say that I don't know > anything about this. Maybe this email will be a reminder to someone who > does know. (Or maybe any questions have already been taken care of off > list?) > > I did have a chat with rlm about the problem in IRC and he found an email to Emily that stated that the code is under Apache 2.0. That is currently not a problem since we are GPL V2+ and Apache 2.0 is GPL V3 compatible, but we want to be able to use Sage under GPL V2 [and compatible] only, so this needs to be sorted out.
Cheers, Michael > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 17:12 -0700, William Stein wrote: > >> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:43 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>> Actually, it is not released under GPL. It's currently licensed under >>>>> Apache 2.0, which is GPL compatible. It had previously been under >>>>> Boyer's personal license. >>>>> >>>> The Apache 2.0 license is not compatible with GPLv2. I believe during >>>> Sage Days 7, he released it (at least to Sage) under the GPL. >>>> >>>> >>> I think apache 2.0 is not GPLv2 compatible, but Apache 2.0 *is* GPLv2+ >>> compatible. >>> >>> >> I just talked about this with Michael, and we really don't want Apache code >> linked into Sage, at least not for our Microsoft Windows port. >> >> Emily, Robert, and Jon Bober - could you guys get documentation that the >> code has been relicensed GPLv2 and change the headers, or if not please >> contact the author? >> >> -- William >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
