Re: [sage-devel] Re: License issues if linking Mathematica and Sage

2012-11-30 Thread David Kirkby
On 30 November 2012 15:53, kcrisman wrote: > > > On Friday, November 30, 2012 6:36:32 AM UTC-5, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> >> It's clear there might be legal issues if Mathematica linked to Sage >> using Mathlink, so I was thinking of sending the email below to both >> the FSF and Wolfram Research

Re: [sage-devel] Re: License issues if linking Mathematica and Sage

2012-11-30 Thread David Kirkby
On 30 November 2012 17:35, Keshav Kini wrote: > David Kirkby writes: >> Sage >> >> http://www.sagemath.org/ >> >> is an open-source mathematical package released under the GPL version >> 2, or if the user wishes, any later version of the GPL. > > Well, according to William as of October 2011 in a

[sage-devel] Re: License issues if linking Mathematica and Sage

2012-11-30 Thread Keshav Kini
David Kirkby writes: > Sage > > http://www.sagemath.org/ > > is an open-source mathematical package released under the GPL version > 2, or if the user wishes, any later version of the GPL. Well, according to William as of October 2011 in an email to me: > The complete Sage distribution is GPLv3

Re: [sage-devel] Re: License issues if linking Mathematica and Sage

2012-11-30 Thread Andrea Lazzarotto
2012/11/30 kcrisman > I guess I don't see the point. Are we really thinking Wolfram would want > to do that? I agree. Also, probably the FSF doesn't care a lot about this because basically they exclude the possibility of existence of any nonfree software... -- *Andrea Lazzarotto* - http://an

[sage-devel] Re: License issues if linking Mathematica and Sage

2012-11-30 Thread kcrisman
On Friday, November 30, 2012 6:36:32 AM UTC-5, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > It's clear there might be legal issues if Mathematica linked to Sage > using Mathlink, so I was thinking of sending the email below to both > the FSF and Wolfram Research. Any comments? > > I guess I don't see the point