> I claim this is still silly.

Then I think you think the GPL is silly and I agree with you :-)

> Did you actually load Sage to write the
> above two lines?  Or did you just type two lines in your email program?
>  (My guess is the latter).  So why in the world would the license for
> Sage affect the license of two lines that you typed in an email editor,
> all on your own, without asking Sage to do anything?  You didn't send
> sage along with your email message.  Those lines didn't load *anything*
> for me; they just sat there looking pretty in my email window.
>
> If you distributed a compiled version of the above two lines, though (so
> that they contained bits of code from the Sage library), well, that
> seems to be a completely different story.

The GPL applies to _source_code_, not merely binary distributions.

> Jason
>
>
> >
>

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