On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Sigh! -1 > > As if M$ could care less about MPFR, but Sage does. >
Does anybody know what major math software out there uses MPFR? Is it just Sage and Magma, or anything else? Do Maple or Mathematica? > The only reason I can see to make MPFR LGPL v3+ would be to merge it > back into GMP. > > Bill. > > On 4 Mar, 00:41, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I think people on sage-devel have already heard about this, but just for >> > the >> > record. >> >> Yep, -1 on their unfortunate decision. I hope the properly document >> their bug fixes in the release notes so that we can backport them. >> >> -- William >> >> >> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> > From: Paul Zimmermann <paul.zimmerm...@loria.fr> >> > Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:24 AM >> > Subject: [MPFR] new license for GNU MPFR >> > To: m...@loria.fr >> > Cc: ca...@loria.fr, philippe.schaef...@loria.fr, licens...@fsf.org >> >> > Dear users, >> >> > the main developers have decided to distribute GNU MPFR under the LGPL v3+ >> > license up from version 3.0 (and right now for the subversion repository): >> >> > - this will hopefully better protect our work against software patents, >> > cf the recents threats against the free software community >> > (http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10173126-75.html) >> >> > - this will enable us to include code from GMP, which is LGPL v3+ too >> > (i.e., avoid to spend our time duplicating the good job done by the GMP >> > developers) >> >> > - since GMP is LGPL v3+, and MPFR heavily depends on GMP, this will not >> > change >> > much for the final user of MPFR (for example within GCC). >> >> > Of course, previous versions of MPFR remain under LGPL v2.1+. >> >> > Paul Zimmermann >> >> > -- >> > Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- >> > Australia --http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Associate Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
