On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:28 PM, maldun <dom...@gmx.net> wrote: > That's great to hear! > > Although I don't know If GPL3 is the best choice ...
I actually didn't have an option regarding GPL or not. > Are there already alternative plans to make funding from SMC, since closed > Source is not an option anymore? > (I think this topic is important, since resources are a major issue) I don't know yet, but I still hope it will be possible to start a company around hosting of SMC, even with SMC being open source. It likely will provide less revenue, and be more difficult to get investment. However, I'm optimistic that at least _something_ will be possible, which in the longterm will have the intended impact (supporting core Sage development). William > > On Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:47:05 PM UTC+1, William wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> SageMathCloud is now completely open source. The complete source >> code is here, so if you've ever wondered how something in SMC works, >> you can now find out... >> >> https://github.com/sagemath/cloud >> >> There is also a new developer mailing list: >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/sage-cloud-devel >> >> >> Question: Why is SMC open source? >> >> Answer: Two of the four NSF grants that very substantially supported >> SMC development had explicit open source requirements. >> >> >> -- William >> >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washington >> http://wstein.org > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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/d/optout.
