On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > William Stein wrote: > >> The GPL allows one to ship anything as binaries, without source code. >> It's merely necessary to provide the source code somehow (e.g., on the >> web). >> >> William > > There is a specific file addressing differences in the cases of libraries - > see COPYING3.LIB in the top directory of any recent GCC. > > Otherwise, those libraries would be covered by GPL 3 and so Sage linking > against GPL3 software.
Sage contains several GPL3 components already, so I'm not sure what the issue is. William > > > > Dave > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
