On 1 Jun., 20:34, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Georg S. Weber
>
>
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 1 Jun., 17:21, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Georg S. Weber
>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> > Hello Sage team,
>
> >> > great work so far, keep pushing forward!
> >> > I've got the following question:
>
> >> > Does a new SPKG, whose contents are licensed under GPLv3+ ("three
> >> > plus"),
> >> > fulfil your license requirement in order to become part of the Sage
> >> > core?
>
> >> No it does not.
>
> >> However, we intend to revisit this question -- by a vote of the JSAGE
> >> editorial board -- every few months, and it is very likely that
> >> at some point we will allow GPLv3+ code in the core. But right
> >> now new GPLv3+ code will not be added to the core of Sage.
>
> >> Do you have a specific project in mind?
>
> >> -- William
>
> > Wow,
>
> > lightspeed-fast response time from both of you, I'm astonished!
>
> > After several years of mathematical absence, since January I begin to
> > find some time.
>
> Welcome back. Are you that Essen student who I had dinner
> with once in Germany around 1997?
>
Yes.
>
> > The first version of SAGE I installed was 2.9.2, and I fell in love
> > with it. Though, the
> > bits and pieces of code I currently have are plain C, with an
> > interface written in Magma.
> > (It's about fast computation of Hecke Operators via Heilbronn-Manin
> > matrices for large
> > primes p.) Gabor Wiese asked me whether he was allowed to "release it
> > into the wild"
> > on the Workshop: Computations with Modular Forms, 17 - 23 August 2008,
> > Bristol, UK,
> > I said yes, and we agreed that some polishing work should happen till
> > then.
>
> > I'm in the middle of making a SPKG out of that code, but my interest
> > in SAGE is reaching
> > much further. There are quite some ideas for coding in the modular
> > symbols area that
> > finally want to get out of my head and into the shape of some software
> > for ten years now.
> > Apart from other obstacles, till SAGE entered the scene, there did not
> > seem a right place
> > where to put them. My other main area of interest are p-adic L-series,
> > same story here.
>
> > The current solution to access my algos from within SAGE is to put
> > them in a dynamic lib and
> > call them from within a cython wrapper. The incredible advantage of
> > SAGE as compared with
> > closed-source solutions is that one simply may read and check out the
> > sources, how all the
> > others were doing things. (Till January, "Python" only was a sort of
> > snake for me ;-)
>
> Plus Cython totally rocks. It's absolutely shockingly amazingly good
> at what it does compared to everything else I've ever encountered.
> And it's only getting better (Cython development is very active right now).
>
> By the way, have you seen our upcoming workshops here:
> http://wiki.modform.org/
> There will be more, e.g., one in Spain in 2009.
>
> You should get involved in the above project.
Yes again. (I missed that project till now, good info, thanks!) Since
I work full time in the industry in an area not related to
mathematical research, my response times often will be many orders of
magnitude slower than yours ...
>
> William
Zum Wohl!
gsw
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