On Friday 14 November 2008, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Martin Albrecht > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 14 November 2008, David Møller Hansen wrote: > >> I would really like to start such a project. > > > > Great! > > > >> But I wouldn't know the first thing on how to do so.. > > > > I suppose the first thing to do, is to look through the list of > > requirements and check the PBC library if it qualifies. It can still be > > an optional package if it doesn't qualify for inclusion in the standard > > library. > > Just for the record, Michael Abshoff claimed that PBC does *not* > qualify due to them > switching to GPL-v3 only. So It would have to be an optional package.
He is right, I just checked. COPYING is GPLv3 and there are no copyright statements in the source files, so COPYING definitely applies. I suppose it is worth a shot to try to convince the authors to consider relicensing? Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
