On Dec 11, 2014 11:23 PM, "Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)" < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > > On 11 Dec 2014 17:46, "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > SageMathCloud is now completely open source. > > Great. > > > Question: Why is SMC open source? > > > > Answer: Two of the four NSF grants that very substantially supported > > SMC development had explicit open source requirements. > > > > > > -- William > > So why was the source not opened earlier? Was this requirement buried in the small print and you only just noticed it? >
Yes, exactly. > I recall the discussions on here a few months back where you defended the decision to keep it closed source. That seems strange thing to do if you knew that two of the grants supporting the work had these open source requirements. > I didn't know. > Dave. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
