On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Afif <aelghra...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > In the discussion I linked to, they actually discuss how the source > wasn't easily available initially due to hosting issues-- the project > head would send it to whoever asked for it. It's still not very easy > to find (they mentioned working on that), but if you go to the mirror > link on their download page, you can find the source code.
Thanks for the clarification. I've changed http://windows.sagemath.org accordingly. William > > Here's the link again, and here's the relevant part of the discussion: > > http://groups.google.com/group/pythonxy/browse_thread/thread/f1842694bf899d81/9a169cbadf2e32c7?lnk=gst&q=sage#9a169cbadf2e32c7 > > <<<< That's right, the source have not always been available online > (because of my old web hosting provider limitations) but that's not a > requirement of the GPL license. The source code must be made available > on demand, that's all and that's what I've been doing every time > someone was interesting in them (my only reluctance to send the code > was related to its very bad quality ;-) ). >>> > > Afif > > On Jul 23, 6:44 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:40 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jason Grout >> > <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> >> On 7/22/10 9:53 PM, Afif Elghraoui wrote: >> >> >> I just read on their website >> >> >>> dedicated to Sage for Windows: "[...] Provide an alternative to >> >>> Enthought's EPD, Python(x,y), and ActiveState Python: 100% free and >> >>> open source, unlike any of the above systems [...]"... I wonder why >> >>> they are accusing Python(x,y) to not be 100% free and open source... >> >>> very disapointing and how outrageous! >> >> >> After looking at their website, it does seem like Python(x,y) is 100% free >> >> and open source. It seems like we should change >> >>http://windows.sagemath.org/to reflect that. >> >> > Show me how to build the binaries like "Python(x,y)-2.6.5.1.exe" >> > listed athttp://www.pythonxy.com/. >> > For at least the first 6 months or so of the Python(x,y) project, >> > there were binaries, but the code needed >> > to create them was not released. I don't know if this has changed. >> > I won't changehttp://windows.sagemath.org >> > so long as the build and distribution system of Python(x,y) remains closed. >> >> > -- William >> >> On second thought, it is probably worth at least >> changinghttp://windows.sagemath.org/to point out that at least I've given up >> completely on that project. We're instead porting to Cygwin, which >> is a very different goal than the one listed athttp://windows.sagemath.org/. >> >> -- William > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
