On Nov 26, 2008, at 8:02 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > On Nov 26, 4:43 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know of no code which in Sage which is GPLv2 only. William or >> Michael, please >> correct me if I am wrong. > > Yes, as I mentioned above there is none. > >> I think that code which is GPLv2 (only) is not GPLv2+ compatible, >> since GPL2+ says the >> modifications can be released under either GPL2 or GPL3 (at your >> choice). >> "GPLv2 only" restricts that choice. > > In the very end we decided that the Sage library code needs to be GPL > V2+ compatible and it would take a major act to change this. It will > also have to pass the JSage panel (in case the vote would be say GPL > V2 only) and I don't see that happening. > > re GPL V3: I am personally no fan of either the FSF or the GPL V3, but > I certainly like the GPL V2. But other people around here like the GPL > V3, but in the end we decided on GPL V2+.
It's good to have that clarified. I'm even less thrilled with the FSF after their license hacking with Wikipedia's GNU FDL. However, given the decision to go GPL V2+, I'll license any of my other code for Sage with a compatible license. The integral test suite I'm only licensing under BSD so SymPy can use it. Cheers, Tim. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
