Hmmm. That makes sense, even though it also makes me want to bang my head on my desk.
That means it should be OK if all the packages involved are GPL. There must be some variants that would also be compatible - ? -Marshall On Nov 13, 1:16 pm, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote: > Hi Marshall! > > On 13 Nov., 19:53, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't see why optional packages should not try to install their > > dependencies. > > The reason is the licence. Gap_packages (or at least the SmallGroups > library) is not GPL. I was told that a GPL package must not install a > non-GPL package. For the same reason, gap_packages can not be a > standard spkg -- it must be the user's own decision to install the non- > GPL package. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is what Michael > Abshoff, William Stein and David Joyner told me. > > Cheers, > Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
