Well it looks like their software is "financial" in the business sense of bookkeeping and accounting and related business support. When someone uses Sage for financial applications its more for modeling and differential equations and stuff. After they lost the famasoft battle they may not want to get too aggressive in their interpretation of 'financial', especially since quantitative finance things in Sage are just a small part of the package. I mean, one could say that the "Sage" Firefox extension can be used to subscribe to financial RSS feeds.
On Nov 1, 6:29 am, Vincent Delecroix <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As you probably knows, Sage is also a company (http://www.sage.com). > It provides financial or buisness software solution. In particular, > the name "Sage" is a registered trademark at the Patent Office (UK) > under the number 2387 (?). It concerns any software dealing with > comptability and finance. > > The french foundation framasoft (http://www.framasoft.net/) was in > trouble with them in 2006 because of the publication of a notice > concerning an extension of Firefox named "Sage" (to read RSS). The > company wrote to them to clear the notice. But the law was not on the > company side because the registration concerned only "financial > software" ! (read the story in french > athttp://framablog.org/index.php/post/2006/12/18/Framasoft-pas-Sageorhttp://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/33591-sage-framasoft-contrefacon.htm). > > What about SAGE for mathematics (there is a finance module) ? What is > the interaction between the registered name by the company and the > GPL ? > > Vincent --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
