Of course, you should ask William before doing anything. Also, I'm not sure how cvxopt interacts with Sage. If only via pexpect, I think you can distribute such GPLv2 and GPLv3 software together but I'd have to check the FSF FAQ again to be sure.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:50 PM, David Joyner<wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > You're right. > > I think sage-2.7.2 had a cvxopt-0.8.2.spkg which might have been GPLv2+, > but I can't find it using google. It has been removed from the cvxopt website. > > I wonder if we should just upgrade to 1.1.1 and change the part in > SAGE_ROOT/COPYING.txt which says > "Every component of Sage except jsmath is licensed under a GPL v2 (or > later) compatible license." ? > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Minh Nguyen<nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi David, >> >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:40 AM, David Joyner<wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> This is my understanding: the (old) version of cvxopt which we use in >>> Sage is GPLv2+. The current version is 1.1.1, which is GPLV3+. >>> Is that incorrect? >> >> The current version we're shipping is cvxopt cvxopt-0.9 which is >> licensed under GPLv3+. That is what it says in the file LICENSE of >> that spkg, i.e. cvxopt-0.9.p8.spkg. >> >> -- >> Regards >> Minh Van Nguyen >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
