Hi William! On 13 Nov., 22:46, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > Regarding: "I was told that a GPL package must not install a non-GPL package." > > The above can never legally come up, right? If a program Foo is "GPL" > and fundamentally depends on a program Bar that is licensed > GPL-incompatible, then distributing Foo at all violates the GPL right? > So if the above situation ever came up, I would not host said spkg > on sagemath.org, since I would be a copyright violator.
If I understood correctly, unless the spkg *links* against a non-GPL package and unless there is non-GPL third party source code included in the spkg, it can still be GPL. I hope I got this right. Cheers, Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
