Evan Fuller wrote: > I'd like to be able to have SAGE use the copy of mathematica on my > department server, which requires SSH with password. Looking at > previous posts, it sounds like there is no way to do this without > setting up something password-less. I'm hoping there has been an > improvement on this in the 18 months since those posts. Can anyone > help me out? I'm using the latest version binary (3.2.3) on Windows, > in case that's relevant.
I might add to this discussion that you do need to be careful about the license agreement for Mathematica. We inquired at Wolfram a while ago about some of the terms of the Mathematica license, and they mentioned one use-case that was prohibited (at least then): if it is a site license, and you are using a computer that is not covered on the site license, then using mathematica over ssh is prohibited. You can see the the details at: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/5d93024ffaf3ff3e/d8ce61f16c4e0baf The response from Wolfram we received to our inquiry included this remark: * With a site license, accessing Mathematica functionality remotely is permitted so long as the originating computer is eligible to have Mathematica installed under the same site license. Now, I am not a lawyer, and this was a while ago (so things might have changed), but there you go anyway. This message isn't to scare you, and it's not to claim that these restrictions would hold up in court either. I'm just pointing out that there are webs of legal things that should be considered. Webs that thankfully don't apply much to Sage! I love not having to worry if I'm breaking something some legal thing by just using Sage in some way that works for me. As far as I understand, basically the only legal requirements you need to remember with Sage are things that you have to do if you change Sage and then redistribute the new product (i.e., you have to also make the source code available). As long as I'm using Sage personally, none of those requirements apply, and I can use and change Sage however I want. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
