Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-06-01 Thread Christopher Swenson
I usually consider MIT / BSD / Apache 2.0 to be a fairly optimal license for the work I do. (In that they function to apply credit, limit liability, and pretty much nothing else. I like licenses that optimize the freedom of people to use the code for what they want.) --Christopher On Fri, Jun 1,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-06-01 Thread Harald Schilly
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Christopher Swenson wrote: > Also see this wonderful flow chat written by some of my > coworkers: http://cl.ly/5nAo I like it! They forgot the WTFPL: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ (gpl compatible!) Also, i think just "public domain" is not possible for them. This is

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-06-01 Thread Christopher Swenson
I was also going to say that it would be great to get a public statement from the author that either licenses the software or releases the copyright into the public domain. From what I understand, without an explicit statement, the work is still copyrighted and "license free", which can be dangerou

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-05-31 Thread John Cremona
Thanks. On 31 May 2012 10:45, mmarco wrote: > One way to check if they are correctly installed is to try to load > them. > > If you want to use them from a gap session, just start > sage -gap > and then load them > LoadPackage("kbmag"); > > If you want to use them from sage through the sage-gap i

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-05-31 Thread John Cremona
Thanks for the clear instructions. I just followed them literally and it all worked fine. I have not tried the extra functionality though -- is there (for each of the two packages in your examples) an easy way to see if they are working? John On 30 May 2012 20:16, mmarco wrote: > I have added

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-05-30 Thread John Cremona
It also occurred to me that if there are (other) Gap packages which we cannot dirstribute with Sage for licensing reasons, an alternative would be to create a Sage spkg for those and submit it to the Gap project for them to dirstribute (or at least have on their web page), so that people could get

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-05-30 Thread John Cremona
On 30 May 2012 10:23, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le mercredi 30 mai, mmarco a écrit: >> He sent me an email just an hour ago granting me permission to >> distribute it under the gpl. Didn't specify which version. So if you >> can talk to him personally it would be much better. > > I think a written pub

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-05-30 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mercredi 30 mai, mmarco a écrit: > He sent me an email just an hour ago granting me permission to > distribute it under the gpl. Didn't specify which version. So if you > can talk to him personally it would be much better. I think a written public statement would be much better than a private o

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-05-30 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:44 AM, John Cremona wrote: > On 29 May 2012 22:15, David Joyner wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:10 PM, mmarco wrote: >>> I have contacted the author of the kbmag package (which has no >>> copyright note at all), and he told me that "it is distributed under >>> no li

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-05-30 Thread John Cremona
On 29 May 2012 22:15, David Joyner wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:10 PM, mmarco wrote: >> I have contacted the author of the kbmag package (which has no >> copyright note at all), and he told me that "it is distributed under >> no license, it is completely open source". I have asked him permi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Gap packages

2012-05-29 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:10 PM, mmarco wrote: > I have contacted the author of the kbmag package (which has no > copyright note at all), and he told me that "it is distributed under > no license, it is completely open source". I have asked him permission > to distribute it under the gpl license.