On May 6, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Vinzent Steinberg wrote:
>
> On May 6, 4:41 pm, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wow, I really missed quite a thread.
>>
>> So is there any final consensus on this? Is the following Sage
>> program automatically GPL?
>>
>> {{{
>> 2+2
>>
>> }}}
>>
>> Or only in the following form?
>>
>> {{{
>> Integer(2)+Integer(2)
>>
>> }}}
>
> From my point of view, GPL'd libraries (and I think sage is also a
> library) are practically only usable by GPL'd code. If you don't want
> this, use LGPL'd libraries or similar.
> The main difference of the LGPL is as far as I know that it allows you
> to use an interface to the LGPL'd code without LGPL'ing your own code.
>
Doesn't both Maple and Mathematica make use of GMP? I thought they did.
They aren't licensed under the GPL.
Cheers,
Tim.
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Tim Lahey
PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo
http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey
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