On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: > >> Another idea is something like wolfram alpha: >> it's on my todo to do something like "sympy gamma". And then something >> for femhub (femhub.org) and PDEs, so this could be used with Sage too. > > I think that is doomed. > > The license conditions on Wolfram|Alpha make such a thing impossible to > do legally. There was a discussion on the Mathematica newsgroup about > this some time ago. I think they have an API, but I believe you need to > pay for it. I can't be bothered to look at all their docs, but linking > to them in some way is not a good idea. > > I believe there is something in the terms of usage something like "for > use interactively by a human" >
The way I read Ondrej's post, it seems to me that he wants to write something *like wolfram alpha*, not something *calling wolfram alpha*. So I don't think he'd be in any trouble with the Alpha license. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
