On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:42:21 -0700 "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Burcin, would LGPL be suitable for you to contribute to sympy, or is > > LGPL not protective enough for you? > > Since Burcin's whole proposal is to use GiNaC, I suspect that he is only going > to write something if it builds on GiNaC. As GiNaC is GPL'd > the above question might be moot, since it seems difficult > to build an LGPL'd Sympy on top of GiNaC... My main objection to using sympy was not the license, but not having access to the fast basic routines in Sage, such as linear algebra, gcd's or polynomial arithmetic. Being trained as a mathematician, I also like the typed magma approach, and I can't deal with just handling symbolic expressions. This also fits well into my work. Since for most of these symbolic tasks, e.g. integration, summation, you model the problem algebraically, solve it using your algebraic tools, then convert it back. This doesn't mean that I'm ok with using licenses other than GPL, but I think the points above make that irrelevant anyhow. Cheers, Burcin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
