Re: [sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/23/10 07:05 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Jun 23, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: IANAL, but I doubt that is true in all cases. I was leaving this distinction out to simplicity the discussion--the Sage codebase is v2+, which can be mixed with v3+. OK. I thought you were ta

Re: [sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-23 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 23, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On 06/23/10 05:49 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: (v2 code can be used in a v3 project, but not the other way around). - Robert IANAL, but I doubt that is true in all cases. I was leaving this distinction out to simplicity the discussion--t

Re: [sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/23/10 05:49 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: (v2 code can be used in a v3 project, but not the other way around). - Robert IANAL, but I doubt that is true in all cases. If someone says the code is "GPL 2", then I don't believe you can necessarily use it in GLP 3 software. http://www.gnu.o

Re: [sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-23 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 23, 2010, at 6:44 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:45:43 -0700 William Stein wrote: ... The core Sage library, since we control it and many people don't like GPL3 so much. Excuse me for interrupting a technical discussion, but I just wanted to ask what is wrong

Re: [sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-23 Thread Robert Miller
>  Excuse me for interrupting a technical discussion, but I just wanted > to ask what is wrong with licensing Sage under GPLv3? Sage is a free > software, am I right. I thought that all GPLs are for free software and > that all of them do guarantee freedom to use and modify the software. For one,

Re: [sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-23 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:45:43 -0700 William Stein wrote: > ... > The core Sage library, since we control it and many people don't like > GPL3 so much. > Excuse me for interrupting a technical discussion, but I just wanted to ask what is wrong with licensing Sage under GPLv3? Sage is a

Re: [sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-22 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 06/23/10 02:35 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dr. David Kirkby >>  wrote: >>> >>> There seems to be an agreement to include GLPK, but as I noted elsewhere, >>> the package does not build properly on 64-

Re: [sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/23/10 02:35 AM, William Stein wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: There seems to be an agreement to include GLPK, but as I noted elsewhere, the package does not build properly on 64-bit Solaris, as the right compiler flag (-m64) does not get added. Robert crea

Re: [sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-22 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > There seems to be an agreement to include GLPK, but as I noted elsewhere, > the package does not build properly on 64-bit Solaris, as the right compiler > flag (-m64) does not get added. Robert created a ticket for this. Thanks so much fo

[sage-devel] GLPK license and version

2010-06-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
There seems to be an agreement to include GLPK, but as I noted elsewhere, the package does not build properly on 64-bit Solaris, as the right compiler flag (-m64) does not get added. Robert created a ticket for this. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9312 The spkg-install and SPKG.txt