On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:14 PM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The note about OpenModelica brought this to mind. > > Maxima is licensed under GPL, but it too has additional restrictions. > You can see the original letter releasing the code to Bill Schelter > from the DOE, whose people perhaps did not understand GPL > entirely. > > http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/maxima-doe-auth.gif > > This letter mentions restrictions, which have always been part of the > DOE Macsyma license: > > "Distribution of such derivative works is subject to the U.S. Export > Administration Regulations (Title 15 CFR 768-799), .... " > > And so Sage [if including Maxima] might require a license for export > to (say) North Korea, Burma, Cuba, or China.
Oh no Burma might attack us armed with our own algerbra based wepons!!! I sum now doubt this restriction is still in use. Even supposing is was a real threat it isn't like they couldn't write one of their own or buy a copy of say mathcad. If the restriction is still out there it sould be appealed. > > I don't know if this is has been overlooked, > or, as I would certainly prefer, has been resolved satisfactorily and > is not of concern. > Classifying Maxima (essentially) as a munition seems > counterproductive. > > Cheers. > RJF > > > > > > > > -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/ http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
