On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 04:54, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> I will say it more strongly: Sage *is* violating the GPL by distributing >> GPLv3-only packages (such as cvxopt) under a GPLv2+ licence. >> > > Sage is changing the license for packages? I thought the Sage distribution > was GPLv3 because of GPLv3 packages it included. Who said the Sage > distribution was GPLv2+?
>From an email exchange between me and William in October: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 06:31, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Saturday, October 1, 2011 10:28:28 AM UTC+8, William wrote: >>> >>> (2) Sage is GPLv3, which is a license that is perceived as very >>> corporate unfriendly by many of the top companies that do commercial >>> software. >> >> Last I checked, Sage was GPLv2+. This is stated in COPYING.txt in the root >> directory of the latest dev version, too (4.7.2.alpha3). Has something >> changed? > > The complete Sage distribution is GPLv3+. The core Sage library > (written in Python and Cython) is GPLv2+. However, many of the > components of Sage are GPLv3+. -- 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
