Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2014-03-06 Thread William Stein
Hi, This is an official statement from Odlyzko giving us permission to distribute any data on his webpage with Sage. William -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Odlyzko Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:39 PM Subject: Re: [sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2014-02-11 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > > On Monday, October 21, 2013 2:49:00 AM UTC+2, kcrisman wrote: >>> >>> >>> I have been >>> meaning to dig into the various CC licenses, and figure out which >>> ones I should put up on my web site, .. > > > > The best one, in my eyes, fo

[sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2014-02-11 Thread Volker Braun
We are not linking to the database (doesn't even make sense). CC BY and CC BY-SA is "good for educational works" according to the FSF. They are incompatible with the GPL when applied to software and documentation, but that is clearly not the case here. I don't think Andrew's answer can be const

[sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2014-02-11 Thread Harald Schilly
On Monday, October 21, 2013 2:49:00 AM UTC+2, kcrisman wrote: > > >> I have been >> meaning to dig into the various CC licenses, and figure out which >> ones I should put up on my web site, .. >> > The best one, in my eyes, for this kind of application is CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdom

[sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2014-02-11 Thread Ralf Stephan
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:05:44 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: > > There are a number of optional databases without or with incomplete > SPKG.txt. If nobody knows the copyright status of the following optional > spkgs then they will have to be deleted: > > database_sloane_oeis > > A pity

[sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2013-10-20 Thread kcrisman
> > > Prof. Odlyzko, is there any copyright status we could put on your zeta > function database to keep it a legitimate part of Sage? It is obviously > extremely useful to have as (an optional) part of this open source software. > Andrew replied but isn't on sage-devel so it probably was not

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2013-10-20 Thread John Cremona
On 20 October 2013 03:17, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:07 PM, kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> On Saturday, October 19, 2013 5:05:44 PM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: >>> >>> There are a number of optional databases without or with incomplete >>> SPKG.txt. If nobody knows the copyright st

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2013-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:07 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > On Saturday, October 19, 2013 5:05:44 PM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> There are a number of optional databases without or with incomplete >> SPKG.txt. If nobody knows the copyright status of the following optional >> spkgs then they will h

[sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2013-10-19 Thread kcrisman
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 5:05:44 PM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: > > There are a number of optional databases without or with incomplete > SPKG.txt. If nobody knows the copyright status of the following optional > spkgs then they will have to be deleted: > > cunningham_tables > database_jone

[sage-devel] Re: Optional spkg databases scheduled for deletion

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/19/13 4:19 PM, David Joyner wrote: Info on the OEIS license is here: http://oeis.org/wiki/User:N._J._A._Sloane/Discussion_of_Licenses The punch line seems to be at the very bottom of the page: Resolution, February 2011 After two months of discussion (not shown here), the OEIS Foundation