On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Pablo De Napoli <pden...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, my point is that gfortran is not distributed with sage in source form.
>> I think that we should either
>> '- include gfortran in source form in sage distribution
>
> Including gfortran or g95 in source form is not realistic, as you'll
> discover if you spend a few weeks trying...
>
>> - split the binary files in a separated file
>> otherwise it is not a source distribution.
>> )but a mix of a source and a binary one. This could even violate the GPL
>> (under which gfortran is distributed) siince we are distributing the
>> binaries but not the sources.
>
> Seriously?

well not . gfortran sources are available on the internet.
But yes if you read the text of the GPL literally.
(nobody will do this, I hope)

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