I was also going to say that it would be great to get a public statement from the author that either licenses the software or releases the copyright into the public domain. From what I understand, without an explicit statement, the work is still copyrighted and "license free", which can be dangerous.
See, e.g., the controversy over qmail -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License-free_software Also see this wonderful flow chat written by some of my coworkers: http://cl.ly/5nAo --Christopher On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, 31 May 2012 13:36:16 UTC+2, Harald Schilly wrote: >> >> Hi, that's a nice one. I've added it to the menu on the sage page, in >> "download > GAP packages". Is this not already a feature in GAP, which >> automatically downloads+extracts those tarballs? E.g. in R there is >> "install.packages" and so on. > > > not, it's not a feature of GAP. > Perhaps in 10 years down the line, yes... :–) > > >> >> A separate wiki page for R packages would be nice, too. i.e. pointing to >> http://cran.r-project.org/**doc/manuals/R-admin.html#** >> Installing-packages<http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installing-packages>plus >> mentioning the way how it can be called in Sage directly. >> >> Which other standard software systems inside Sage have their own >> packaging system? (besides Python) >> >> H >> >> On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:16:12 PM UTC+2, mmarco wrote: >>> >>> I have added a wiki page: >>> >>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/**InstallingGapPackages<http://wiki.sagemath.org/InstallingGapPackages> >>> >>> -- > 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 > -- 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
