On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:58 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> As to GPL vs BSD, I am sad that some people will not contribute to a >>> BSD project and some other people will not use a GPL project. But my >>> intuition says that the license is not the main reason. If sympy was >>> as fast as ginac (as I hope it will be in not so distant future), I am >>> sure it'd be ok, even if it's BSD. BTW, I told Burcin and William that >>> if the license was the only reason, I am willing to consider switching >>> to GPL (i.e. try to persuade all 44+ contributors), if that would mean >>> more people would be developing sympy. Currently it seems to be the >>> opposite, i.e. when we switched from GPL to BSD, people and developers >>> seemed to like it, but I may well be mistaken. But as I said, I think >>> the main problem of sympy is not the license, but speed. >> >> The GPL/BSD split in the mathematical Python community is >> unfortunate and a is very real problem. At scipy'08 it was >> the source of tension for some people... > > I don't know if for this particular project it's a > realistic/valid/interesting solution or not, but how about using LGPL > as a middle solution?
This is not an option because Pynac derives from Ginac and Ginac is GPL'd: http://www.ginac.de/ So for this project I have absolutely no choice in the matter. > Just a suggestion to consider, though obviously ultimately the > decision rests with the code authors. Yep, and it turns out they already made that choice a decade ago. > ps - I find the pynac idea extremely cool: using python itself as the > rich native support for a C/C++ library in replacement of another > heavyweight system (CLN in this case) is a great show of the utility > and quality of the language. FWIW I'm +1 on it going in, though I'm > not really a sage developer myself. Thanks. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
