On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2010-11-16 19:33, David Kirkby wrote: >> " Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). >> You may use any version of the GPL you want. "
-1, since most people contributed under the GPLv2+ condition, and the permissions I got from all contributors a few years ago were to clarify that the license terms were GPLv2+. We can't retroactively change to GPLv1+. And there is no point in doing so. > This would be a change in policy which I explicitly did not want to do. > It is already stated in other places that Sage is licenced under GPLv2+ > so I assumed that to be a given. And I don't think many people will be > bothered by not being able to distribute Sage under GPLv1 (GPLv2 dates > from 1991, GPLv1 from 1989). > > Jeroen. +1 -- 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
