On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:02 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. [...] if > we just take a breath, carefully understand the situation, and > possibly get a lot of momentum...
(Something will appear on the number theory list soon about this.) I've just also got some offline emails from Neil Sloane, and we (the Sage project) definitely have their permission to distribute the OEIS file. This is a something they are letting *us* do, but not necessarily any other projects. Their main concern now is figuring out how to rebuild the file automatically, so they can make up to date versions of the file available to us on a regular basis. It will be very important for us to find a way to keep the optional Sloane table spkg up to date. (We could possibly setup a cron job, and also something in the sloane_sequence function, maybe, that detects if the downloaded database is too old, and warns the user.) If people have ideas about how to address the technically issues mentioned above, do share. -- William 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
