On Friday, July 30, 2010, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 07/30/10 04:06 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Jul 29, 5:16 pm, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, July 29, 2010, Dima Pasechnik<dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I guess it boils down to whether "should" means "must" here, or not. > Are there any means to decide, any precedents? > > > > (I can also contact authors and ask whether they might soften the > language...) > > > Yes and you should definitely write to the FSF. > > > > FSF - do you mean to write to<licens...@fsf.org> asking this > question about the legal meaning of "should"? > > > I wonder how long their legal department would debate that one? > > > I wrote to an author I know, no reply so far. >
FSF regularly and promptly answer GPL compatibility questions. It's their specialty. We've written them many times. > > That seems far more sensible. > > > Dima > > > I can appreciate an author would want acknowledging for their work. I think > that is a big gripe many people have about the GPL v2. > > 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 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
