On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 at 12:31PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > Our Sage contract with Stein only covers computers owned by University > of Washington Seattle. Any other installations must be removed. > > Faculty and Staff of the UW Seattle campus may connect to > http://sagemath.org/homeuse/ to request a Sage license for their > personally owned computer under the Home-use program. RA's TA's and > other student positions are not considered staff by Stein. Sage > licenses acquired through the Home-use program may not be used for > work associated with any UW class being attended by the Faculty/Staff > member as a student.
Jason Grout discovered as much a couple years ago: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/5d93024ffaf3ff3e/ There, a Wolfram rep effectively said that connecting to a university computer over ssh violates their license. And now we see that they're willing to enforce that. I can only see this as being good for Sage. Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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