Re: [sage-devel] Inclusion of external library and compatibility between licenses ...

2010-06-07 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Nathann Cohen wrote: >> That's just not going to happen. > > So a spkg ? Or, just convince the author to license the code GPLv2+. That shouldn't be so hard. -- William > > Nathann > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com

Re: [sage-devel] Inclusion of external library and compatibility between licenses ...

2010-06-07 Thread Nathann Cohen
> That's just not going to happen. So a spkg ? Nathann -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-d

Re: [sage-devel] Inclusion of external library and compatibility between licenses ...

2010-06-07 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Jun 7, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Nathann Cohen wrote: > >>> Well, there's a technical and legal question here. On a technical note, >>> it's >>> better to put the C files in an spkg and then link to them from the Sage >>> library rather than chec

Re: [sage-devel] Inclusion of external library and compatibility between licenses ...

2010-06-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 7, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Nathann Cohen wrote: Well, there's a technical and legal question here. On a technical note, it's better to put the C files in an spkg and then link to them from the Sage library rather than check external code into the Sage library itself. (If you want help mak

Re: [sage-devel] Inclusion of external library and compatibility between licenses ...

2010-06-07 Thread Nathann Cohen
> How small? > > In some case putting code in the sage library makes very good sense, > and in others it doesn't. ~$ wc -l dm.c dm_english.h random.c 1296 dm.c 117 dm_english.h 149 random.c 1562 total ~$ random.c is not really needed, actually. It just contains examples. Nathann -- To po

Re: [sage-devel] Inclusion of external library and compatibility between licenses ...

2010-06-07 Thread William Stein
On Monday, June 7, 2010, Nathann Cohen wrote: >> Well, there's a technical and legal question here. On a technical note, it's >> better to put the C files in an spkg and then link to them from the Sage >> library rather than check external code into the Sage library itself. (If >> you want help ma

Re: [sage-devel] Inclusion of external library and compatibility between licenses ...

2010-06-07 Thread Nathann Cohen
> Well, there's a technical and legal question here. On a technical note, it's > better to put the C files in an spkg and then link to them from the Sage > library rather than check external code into the Sage library itself. (If > you want help making an spkg, I'd be happy to do that.) H ^^;

Re: [sage-devel] Inclusion of external library and compatibility between licenses ...

2010-06-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 7, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Nathann Cohen wrote: Hello everybody I have exchanged several email with Fabien de Montgolfier, who wrote a C implementation [1] of an algorithm computing the modular decomposition of a graph [2]. Since then, I have been writing an interface between Sage and th

[sage-devel] Inclusion of external library and compatibility between licenses ...

2010-06-07 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody I have exchanged several email with Fabien de Montgolfier, who wrote a C implementation [1] of an algorithm computing the modular decomposition of a graph [2]. Since then, I have been writing an interface between Sage and this C code [3], and discussing with Minh and him possi