On Sep 17, 3:26 am, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> But they wrongly read from the Sage webpages, that Sage is using the
> >>> "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported". So sagemath webpage
> >>> should clearly state that Sage is GPL, unless otherwise stated.
>
> >> Btw, I pointed in the discussion under the article to this page:
>
> >>http://www.sagemath.org/doc/prog/node79.html
>
> >> but it doesn't say that Sage is in fact GPL2 or later (am I right?). I
> >> think it's very important that people can find the correct license of
> >> the software quickly.
>
> > Maybe it was updated recently, but the very first lines
> >http://www.sagemath.orgare
>
> > " Sage is a free mathematics software system licensed under the GPL.
> > It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a
> > common Python-based interface. "
>
> You are right. Sorry for my email, so now everything is fine, that's
> how it should be imho.
>
> (Maybe also clarify which GPL somewhere in the docs, but that is minor).
Ehh:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sage
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| SAGE Version 3.1, Release Date: 2008-08-16 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
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sage:
So spending about a minute with Sage should give you the hint to run
"license()" which explains the license of Sage in pretty clear words.
If the Czech Linux journal thinks Sage is "Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 Unported" licensed due to the website content maybe
they should send their writers to a little research seminar :)
> Ondrej
Cheers,
Michael
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