On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Alfredo Portes <doyenatc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That FAQ entry which you partially quoted concludes with "A >> consequence is that if you choose to use GPL'd Perl modules or Java >> classes in your program, you must release the program in a >> GPL-compatible way, regardless of the license used in the Perl or Java >> interpreter that the combined Perl or Java program will run on." > > Unless the module used has a classpath exception right? Like Java does. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception > > Couldn't Sage include something like this?
No, because Sage derives from many other GPL'd programs, and those would *all* have to make the classpath exception as well. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
