Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-30 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > No, that wouldn't work.  For one, the BSD license says: > > Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this > list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > > So you can't just delete the BSD header and replace i

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Andrea Lazzarotto
Ok sorry, probably I was confusing with the revised BSD and the fact that the license happily allows proprietary software to use and abuse open source components. But yes, you are right about the single files. -- Andrea Lazzarotto -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroup

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/29/12 4:30 PM, Andrea Lazzarotto wrote: Il giorno 29/giu/2012 23:20, "Jason Grout" mailto:jason-s...@creativetrax.com>> ha scritto: > The BSD files themselves would still be BSD, even if the distribution was GPL, right? You can't just delete the BSD header and change it to GPL, can you? Y

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Andrea Lazzarotto
Il giorno 29/giu/2012 23:20, "Jason Grout" ha scritto: > The BSD files themselves would still be BSD, even if the distribution was GPL, right? You can't just delete the BSD header and change it to GPL, can you? You can change a single character and release your modified version as GPL. :-) -- A

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/29/12 4:13 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: On 2012-06-29 20:54, Fernando Perez wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote: Would this symmetric flow not also be possible if ipython relicensed to GPL? Honest question. Certainly, but that's not in the cards. All the 'scipy e

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/29/12 1:54 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: It would be likely impossible to get them to agree to a GPL relicensing. But you wouldn't have to, right? You could just add one file that was GPL, and start distributing that, and IPython would switch to GPL (though the files already there would be

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-06-29 20:54, Fernando Perez wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote: >> Would this symmetric flow not also be possible if ipython relicensed to GPL? >> Honest question. > > Certainly, but that's not in the cards. All the 'scipy ecosytem' > (python, numpy, scipy, m

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Andrea Lazzarotto
> > Besides at this > point even if I wanted (which I don't) to change it I couldn't, as > there are by now way too many ipython contributors who made their > contributions to the project as BSD. It would be likely impossible to > get them to agree to a GPL relicensing. > Can't it be an issue for

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > Would this symmetric flow not also be possible if ipython relicensed to GPL? > Honest question. Certainly, but that's not in the cards. All the 'scipy ecosytem' (python, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, ipython, pandas, statsmodels, scikit-learn

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On 29 June 2012 20:39, Fernando Perez wrote: > Minor note from the peanut gallery: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:46 AM, William Stein wrote: > > We should just relicense the sage notebook as BSD to completely > > eliminate this problem > > speaking from the IPython side, this would be great

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-29 Thread Fernando Perez
Minor note from the peanut gallery: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:46 AM, William Stein wrote: > We should just relicense the sage notebook as BSD to completely > eliminate this problem speaking from the IPython side, this would be great for us. We're starting to have real collaboration between ipy

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/28/12 8:49 AM, kcrisman wrote: On Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:32:05 AM UTC-4, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: On 2012-06-28 15:27, kcrisman wrote: > I don't think that's quite fair. A lot of the development of the new > notebook has been done by people on Mac, from what I can tell, whil

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:32:05 AM UTC-4, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2012-06-28 15:27, kcrisman wrote: > > I don't think that's quite fair. A lot of the development of the new > > notebook has been done by people on Mac, from what I can tell, while > > it's been run on Linux. And most o

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-06-28 14:47, kcrisman wrote: > I don't see why a notebook-only upgrade couldn't be done for 5.2, release > end of July, if that really was pretty much all that was included. I doubt that adding more stuff will significantly slow down the release. -- To post to this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-06-28 15:27, kcrisman wrote: > I don't think that's quite fair. A lot of the development of the new > notebook has been done by people on Mac, from what I can tell, while > it's been run on Linux. And most of the web app stuff has been "tested" > by people using all kinds of different bro

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:59:32 AM UTC-4, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2012-06-28 14:36, Jason Grout wrote: > > On 6/28/12 3:37 AM, David Kirkby wrote: > >> I'm sure Jeroen knows this, but I think I'll raise the point anyway. > >> Trying to rush a release because certain people want featur

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-06-28 14:36, Jason Grout wrote: > On 6/28/12 3:37 AM, David Kirkby wrote: >> I'm sure Jeroen knows this, but I think I'll raise the point anyway. >> Trying to rush a release because certain people want feature X, Y or Z >> is dangerous. There is far more chance of getting bugs. Also, whils

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:36:16 AM UTC-4, jason wrote: > > On 6/28/12 3:37 AM, David Kirkby wrote: > > I'm sure Jeroen knows this, but I think I'll raise the point anyway. > > Trying to rush a release because certain people want feature X, Y or Z > > is dangerous. There is far more chance

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/28/12 3:37 AM, David Kirkby wrote: I'm sure Jeroen knows this, but I think I'll raise the point anyway. Trying to rush a release because certain people want feature X, Y or Z is dangerous. There is far more chance of getting bugs. Also, whilst I apprecaite some system admins don't like inst

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Thursday, 28 June 2012 09:58:39 UTC+1, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > On 27 June 2012 19:17, Volker Braun wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:25:19 PM UTC+1, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> > >> If you combine GPL and GPL-incompatible software and redistribute the > >> result, you have a p

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread Volker Braun
The "system library exception" does not require or imply any popular consensus about what an operating system should ship with. MinGW and Cygwin both link to proprietary libraries under the system library exception, yet nobody in their right mind would want those proprietary libraries in their

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-28 Thread David Kirkby
On 27 June 2012 19:17, Volker Braun wrote: > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:25:19 PM UTC+1, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> If you combine GPL and GPL-incompatible software and redistribute the >> result, you have a problem. > > > Not necessarily, this is the System Library exception in the GPL. Yes

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread Volker Braun
On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:25:19 PM UTC+1, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > If you combine GPL and GPL-incompatible software and redistribute the > result, you have a problem. Not necessarily, this is the System Library exception in the GPL. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2012-06-27 19:46, William Stein wrote: >> We indirectly support an *optional* (and little used) feature for the >> Sage notebook called "ssl support", and for people to use it, they >> must either use the system-wide ssl on their compute

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-06-27 19:46, William Stein wrote: > We indirectly support an *optional* (and little used) feature for the > Sage notebook called "ssl support", and for people to use it, they > must either use the system-wide ssl on their computer or install an > optional package themselves. It's not option

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 06/27/12 11:40, Volker Braun wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:24:29 PM UTC+1, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >>     Debian wants to ship only Free Software. If your Free Software requires >>     non-Free software, it ain't Free. >>

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/27/12 11:40, Volker Braun wrote: > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:24:29 PM UTC+1, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Debian wants to ship only Free Software. If your Free Software requires > non-Free software, it ain't Free. > > > This has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Both Apache

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread Volker Braun
On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:24:29 PM UTC+1, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Debian wants to ship only Free Software. If your Free Software requires > non-Free software, it ain't Free. > This has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Both Apache v1.0 and GPL are Free Software Licenses. They are in

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/27/12 11:16, Volker Braun wrote: > Debian is also pretty much the only one who disagrees with this. > > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:13:40 PM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > > Neither of these have any legal problems AFAIK. > Debian disagrees with this... > Debian wants to ship

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread Volker Braun
Debian is also pretty much the only one who disagrees with this. On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:13:40 PM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > > Neither of these have any legal problems AFAIK. > Debian disagrees with this... > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-06-27 11:12, Keshav Kini wrote: > We're not shipping OpenSSL, just requiring it as a dependency. We also > provide it as an optional supplementary download for those who don't > have the authority to install OpenSSL globally on their system. > Neither of these have any legal problems AFAIK

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-27 Thread Keshav Kini
Julien Puydt writes: > Le 25/06/2012 22:01, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : >> I can try for a quick sage-5.2 release, but one month is fairly tight. >> I also depends a lot on how much troubles we get with the new notebook >> (and OpenSSL), which will hopefully finally get merged. > > Beware of OpenSSL

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-26 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/26/12 8:37 AM, kcrisman wrote: On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:59:55 AM UTC-4, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: On 2012-06-26 13:46, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > At least 0.9.0, as it should fix a number of issues present in the old > one. It is also annoying creating interacts in the n

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-26 Thread kcrisman
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:59:55 AM UTC-4, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2012-06-26 13:46, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > > At least 0.9.0, as it should fix a number of issues present in the old > > one. It is also annoying creating interacts in the notebook and then > > discover that something w

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-26 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-06-26 13:46, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > At least 0.9.0, as it should fix a number of issues present in the old > one. It is also annoying creating interacts in the notebook and then > discover that something works differently with Sage cell server. As I > understand it, differences should

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-26 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
At least 0.9.0, as it should fix a number of issues present in the old one. It is also annoying creating interacts in the notebook and then discover that something works differently with Sage cell server. As I understand it, differences should be reduced by the switch. Having a beta version with e

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-26 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-06-26 10:54, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > Hi Jeroen, > > I also would like to have Sage with new notebook ready by the start of > the next term (a bit in advance for testing and setting up) - is it > possible perhaps to make 5.2 just for the notebook switch?.. Are you talking about sagenb-0

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2012-06-26 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
Hi Jeroen, I also would like to have Sage with new notebook ready by the start of the next term (a bit in advance for testing and setting up) - is it possible perhaps to make 5.2 just for the notebook switch?.. Thank you, Andrey On Jun 25, 10:01 pm, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2012-06-25 20:54,

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2009-06-07 Thread William Stein
2009/6/7 Martin Albrecht : > > On Saturday 06 June 2009, William Stein wrote: >> Hi Sage Devel, >> >> Now that sage-4.0.1 has been released (13 hours ahead of schedule, and >> on budget!), it's time for the *community* to work on planning the >> next Sage release. >> >> To get things going, here a

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2009-06-07 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Saturday 06 June 2009, William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage Devel, > > Now that sage-4.0.1 has been released (13 hours ahead of schedule, and > on budget!), it's time for the *community* to work on planning the > next Sage release. > > To get things going, here are some questions. > > Should it be a

[sage-devel] Re: sage release plan

2009-06-06 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage Devel, > > Now that sage-4.0.1 has been released (13 hours ahead of schedule, and > on budget!), it's time for the *community* to work on planning the > next Sage release. > > To get things going, here are some questions. > > Should it be a quick 4.0.2 or a bigger