On Nov 11, 7:20 pm, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2010-11-11 11:53, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > > The license must be a GPL version v2+ compatible license. > > Note that GPLv3 is NOT compaible with GPLv2! I quote > fromhttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GNUGPL
but we talk about GPLv2+ (i.e. GPLv2 or a later version, as you please), not GPLv2. > > Please note that GPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2 by itself. However, > most software released under GPLv2 allows you to use the terms of later > versions of the GPL as well. When this is the case, you can use the code > under GPLv3 to make the desired combination. > > So either > 1) the requirement that spkgs have GPLv2+ compatible licences must be > removed > 2) we release Sage under GPLv3+ > 3) we remove all GPLv3+ code from Sage > > I don't like it either, but that's the way it is. No, I don't think you're right, see above... Dima > > Jeroen. -- 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
