On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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?
Yes, definitely. Alternatively, we can fork their last GPLv2 version. (Just kidding! -- I've never even looked at the project.) William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
