[sage-devel] Re: proposal: license/ subdirectory in spkg packages

2008-09-09 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Georg S. Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oops, > several misunderstandings, and perhaps on my side, too. > > First of all: my intention is to lower the current overall complexity, > certainly not to increase it ... > > My understanding is that "everything" that

[sage-devel] Re: proposal: license/ subdirectory in spkg packages

2008-09-09 Thread Georg S. Weber
Oops, several misunderstandings, and perhaps on my side, too. First of all: my intention is to lower the current overall complexity, certainly not to increase it ... My understanding is that "everything" that a new spkg "foo" adds to the current Sage installation that it is added too, will be do

[sage-devel] Re: proposal: license/ subdirectory in spkg packages

2008-09-09 Thread David Joyner
I like this idea but it provides another layer of complexity. What if someone simply forgets to add a license subdirectory? Does that make their package invalid or does sage -i foo.spkg fail? In the case of gap_packages*, a number of Gap packages are bundled, with varying licenses (mostly GPL but