On 28 December 2012 16:47, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > also make it an optional sage package).
This is what I was thinking, but I personally thought it worth asking WRI exactly where we stood if using their protocol. At the end of the day, anything you do to circumvent using their shared library, WRI could put a stop to without changing any code - just their license conditions. When Mathematica 10 comes out, one of the conditions of that license is that you can't control Mathematica from external programs without the use of the Mathlink library. At which point, although the code would work, it would be against the license to use it. Hence my feeling it is better to ask WRI, and work with them rather than against them. > The other alternative is reverse engineering the protocol for the > Mathematica REPL. I can't imagine it is very complicated, since there are a > few canonical choices for such things. > > William 'jmath' has existed for years as a nice GPL'ed front end for Mathematica, and as far as I'm aware, WRI have never tried to stop it. So I don't think they would care if Sage implement something similar. But I personally would rather ask. You see a draft of a mesage I intended sending, but also the negative comments about it, so I never bothered. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en.
