That's too bad. I knew GraphViz was open source. I didn't know they chose a GPL incompatible license.
Michel On Apr 30, 6:06 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Michel <michel.vandenbe...@uhasselt.be> > wrote: > > > I wonder if GraphViz is part of sage. I thought it was > > specially designed for visualizing graphs. > > 1) GraphViz doesn't work as a web application (via a web browser). > > 2) GraphViz cannot be included in Sage because it is licensed under a > GPL-incompatible license. See > > http://www.graphviz.org/License.php > > http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Common_Public_License,_version_1.0 > > "The Common Public License is incompatible with version 2 of the GPL > because it has various specific requirements that are not in the GPL. > The license is still incompatible with version 3 of the GPL because it > contains a choice of law clause, which is expressly prohibited in > section 7. " > > William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
