On Sep 23, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Alec Mihailovs wrote:
> >> This is only perhaps ideal from the typical end user's point of view. >> The GPL-style license is greatly preferred over the BSD/MIT as the >> license for Sage by most Sage developers (this was discussed a lot >> at Sage Days 2). In fact, several of the top contributors to >> Sage have >> explicitly said they would not contribute to Sage if it were not >> licensed >> under the GPL. It's very important to these people, who put a massive >> amount of their time into Sage, that the code the write not just be >> copied into Mathematica/Maple/Magma, etc., and sold for profit, >> improved, etc., with nothing given in return. > > By the way, the GPL licensing, generally, is the main thing that > prevents me > personally from contributing to SAGE. I never put anything I wrote > under GPL > and I am not going to (at least at this moment.) Comparing to the > danger of > copying the code that I wrote to Mathematica, Maple, or Magma, the GPL > licensing (and FSF copyrighting) seems to be much worse :) hi Alec, Could you please elaborate on this a bit? What is it about the GPL that you don't like? If you were to contribute code to SAGE, what would be your ideal license? david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
