On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Tom Boothby <tomas.boot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:11 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> On 26 November 2010 01:56, Donald Alan Morrison <donmorri...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> A1: If the license says you can't or the stripped version is no longer >>> available, that's not an option. >> >>> -Don >> >> That would be true if the license was legally enforceable, which I >> very much doubt it is. >> >> Dave > > > Dave, this is an open source project. We respect the licenses of > others, no matter how much we disagree with them, legally enforceable > or not, or we've got no moral basis to expect others to respect ours. > If their license doesn't allow the use I suggested, then we won't do > it, no matter if we can. However, we can probably use an outdated > version under the license it was distributed under.
Dave is not a lawyer so his advise that the new license is not enforceable should be taken with a grain of salt. > > Also, the moment you say "if [it] was legally enforceable" online, if > you then carry out whatever [it] is, you graduate from "criminal" to > "stupid criminal". +1 I think the right thing to do in this case is to carefully understand the intention of the license (possibly consult with a lawyer), and also to possibly write a letter to the OEIS foundation with a petition for them to reconsider their license. With MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org/) they kept telling me offlist before they made their first release what "open source" license they would use. Until the very end, I always wrote back that it was *not* open source, and they better fix it... and they did. They had the absolute best of intentions. It's possible OEIS is the same, and if we just take a breath, carefully understand the situation, and possibly get a lot of momentum, maybe we can enlighten them a little. It's important this happen somewhat quickly though. I'm going to go post to the number theory list. -- William > > -- > 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
