On May 6, 2009, at 12:09 AM, mabshoff wrote: > Note that any GPLed codebase like Singular or pari would also be viral > to high level code and I cannot believe that this is the way the GPL > is intended. Anything using readline, i.e. IPython, would be infected, > too, and that goes way too far IMHO (You can obviously use libedit or > no readline at all to work around this).
I could very well be wrong, but according to RMS anything using readline *is* infected: http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL I would be interested in knowing why this is _not_ the case, i.e. what caused clisp to have problems but not IPython. Not a big fan of the GPL, Ivan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
