On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote: > > At the beginning of this thread, someone posted a link to the Sage worksheet: > > http://abstract.ups.edu/sage-aata.html > > That is 1) being publicly distributed and 2) is not being released > under the GPL. > > Plus, anyone can create an account on the public Sage notebook > servers, so basically any worksheet that is Shared there falls under > this category. > > Finally a quick Google for "Sage Worksheet" or ".sws" reveals *many* > public Sage worksheets, and at a glance, none of them have any > licensing information. > > Now that I think about it, how would I release a worksheet under the > GPL. The usual way is to add: > > This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version....etc. > > to the source. Is there a simple way of doing that? Would it make > sense to enable notebook users to add this to their Worksheet by > simply clicking a box "Make this GPL." Then, when a Worksheet is > loaded, if it has the GPL text, the notebook could display it or > notify the user "This Worksheet is GPLd."
Irregardless of all the licensing discussion above about derived works, etc, it would be nice to provide a simple way for users to GPL a worksheet, along with a link to the GPL, GPL faq, etc. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
