On Dec 12, 2007 10:00 PM, pgdoyle <> wrote: > Hi William, > > If we set up a sage notebook server on a machine with mathematica > installed, and let the general public sign up for accounts, > then the general public will be able to run mathematica through the > sage browser. And without having looked at the license > agreement for our mathematica installation, I can be pretty sure that > this is something Wolfram will have tried to prevent. > I imagine other people will have pondered this, and I wonder what the > current thinking is about it.
Wow, from this point of view, Sage suddenly seems to have the potential to be a threatening copyright circumvention device or something, like bittorrent. I definitely hadn't thought of things in quite that way before. Anyway, I'm certain that doing what you describe above would be a violation of the Wolfram license agreement, and I am careful never to do it (e.g., sagenb.org only has free software available). Maybe -- I do *not* know for sure -- you could do this if instead you let only people who are authorized to use that copy of Mathematica anyways get accounts. E.g., at UW we have a site license for Mathematica, so all students, staff, and faculty at UW could legally use Mathematica severed via a Sage notebook using campus-owned equipment. Alex Clemesha -- you used WebMathematica a lot, and the Sage notebook was your vision -- do you have any clarifying remarks to add above? -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
