Sigh! -1 As if M$ could care less about MPFR, but Sage does.
The only reason I can see to make MPFR LGPL v3+ would be to merge it back into GMP. Bill. On 4 Mar, 00:41, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think people on sage-devel have already heard about this, but just for the > > record. > > Yep, -1 on their unfortunate decision. I hope the properly document > their bug fixes in the release notes so that we can backport them. > > -- William > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Paul Zimmermann <paul.zimmerm...@loria.fr> > > Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:24 AM > > Subject: [MPFR] new license for GNU MPFR > > To: m...@loria.fr > > Cc: ca...@loria.fr, philippe.schaef...@loria.fr, licens...@fsf.org > > > Dear users, > > > the main developers have decided to distribute GNU MPFR under the LGPL v3+ > > license up from version 3.0 (and right now for the subversion repository): > > > - this will hopefully better protect our work against software patents, > > cf the recents threats against the free software community > > (http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10173126-75.html) > > > - this will enable us to include code from GMP, which is LGPL v3+ too > > (i.e., avoid to spend our time duplicating the good job done by the GMP > > developers) > > > - since GMP is LGPL v3+, and MPFR heavily depends on GMP, this will not > > change > > much for the final user of MPFR (for example within GCC). > > > Of course, previous versions of MPFR remain under LGPL v2.1+. > > > Paul Zimmermann > > > -- > > Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- > > Australia --http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
