On Monday, 24 February 2014 15:57:23 UTC+1, Georg S. Weber wrote: > > Uh oh. Splendid. License discussion (again). > > Since "GPL v3+" is not compatible with "GPL v2" (without "+"), a change > from GPL v2+ to GPL v3+ would mean a change to a more restrictive license. > > IIRC, Sage-the-library always was intended to be "GPL v2+", while > Sage-the-distribution might have incorporated "GPL v3+" parts by now, but > note that IIRC Singular has a license "either GPL v2 or GPL v3" which would > rule out something as a (not existing at the moment) GPL v4. > > Not that I personally really would care if Sage-the-library would (have) > change(d) from "GPL v2+" to "GPL v3+" (or to "two-clause BSD", or to > "Apache v2.0"). > > But above all, the license situation should be crystal clear!! > > So please someone either give a pointer to when and where it was decided > that "Sage-the-library" has become "GPL v3+"ed and adjust the "COPYING.txt" > file accordingly, or else please someone adjust the documentation place > that Jeroen mentioned (67a76032 ?! I didn't follow that pointer.) > (I might volunteer to do that resp. do the review ... but we need an > unanimous agreement first.) > > > Cheers, > Georg >
Hmm, wait a minute ... I seem to remember William explaining to me that a copyright text referring to "just" the GPL would essentially imply that one could choose from the GPL web site whatever version of the license one wanted. Currently GPL v1, GPL v2, GPL v3 are the available ones. I think I can find that thread (should have been on sage-devel) given enough time (which I might have in the evening, but not now, it's afternoon when I write these lines). But would this really answer our question at hand? Possibly ... (but maybe in an unexpected way). Cheers, Georg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
