My hope is that when they understand the additional benefits of distributing it with GPL they can change it. Since, someone asked them to use it for commercial purposes, they allowed for it in the latest license. I am still hopeful :) Also, I think you are right about the difficultie of tcl/tk. At least an optional/experimental package still sounds good. There is also another promissing finite element code named code aster which is GPL. You can find some info at http://www.code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?rubrique2 http://www.salome-platform.org/home/presentation/overview/
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:13 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 23, 2:01 pm, "ahmet alper parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Firstly, I want to use it with R and with some other packages in which I > can > > signal process, optimize etc (there are many opportunities I think) and I > > want to exchange data with opensees. Yes it is opensource but with the > > restriction that you can distribute it for noncommercial purposes but you > > This sounds unclear to me. Anything that is distributed with the > standard Sage has to be GPL V2+ compatible. The above sounds like it > wouldn't be, but IANAL. > > > can not distribute (or integrate it) with commercial applications, but > > indeed you can use it for commercial purposes (which sounds to me very > hard > > to control for which purposes I am distributing it!). You can find the > > latest modified license athttp:// > opensees.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/OpenSees/C.<http://opensees.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/OpenSees/C.> > .. > > Also, yes it is built on tcl/tk and requires it for now. > > The dependency on tcl/tk is also a large issue and would be a large > hurdle for the inclusion in standard Sage. But we will certainly be > happy to have an optional or experimental spkg of you want to provide > one. > > > I think it will be great to use it with Sage too :) > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
