William,

Le mercredi 30 novembre 2022 à 18:00:22 UTC+1, wst...@gmail.com a écrit :

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 1:26 AM Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 7:59 PM William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 11:25 AM kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > Though see this: 
> https://www.wolfram.com/engine/faq/#can-i-use-the-free-engine-in-an-open-source-project
>  
> > > 
> > > That says " However, the Free Engine license does not permit end-user 
> > > use, except when this use is for further development. For end-user 
> > > uses, users must have a separate license for the Wolfram Engine." 
> > > which seems to me to make it crystal clear that it would not be legal 
> > > to install cocalc-docker (or even Jupyter notebook) and along with 
> > > Wolfram Engine and use it for any purpose except for development of 
> > > cocalc or Jupyter itself (i.e., to make sure the UI works). 
> > > Everything in that FAQ is about "developing a product". 
> > 
> > I'm not a lawyer, but in Wolfram's mindset a scientific paper is a 
> > product, too, no ? 
> > (Especially assuming it has enough self-promotion hype in it - not 
> > sure, if this is a joke :-)) 
> > 
> > Would putting Wolfram Engine on cocalc with a warning saying "read 
> > their terms of use" be 
> > too dangerous, risking more than just being slapped with a "cease and 
> > desist" letter? 
>
> Dima, 
>
> I suspect something fairly close to what you suggest would be legal. 
> Namely, 
> you can create your own CoCalc project, then you download Wolfram 
> Engine (or any other software) to your computer, then upload it into 
> CoCalc. 
> Then use it. Our terms of service don't prevent you from uploading your 
> own binaries and using them. It's not different to you creating 
> a VM on DigitalOcean or something, and installing Wolfram Engine or any 
> other 
> software there. People have in the past done exactly the above with 
> Magma, Maple and the 
> actual full Mathematica.



Do you think that the same loophole would be applicable to Sagecelll 
(different structure...) wrt to international law, wrt american law, and 
with wrt to european law ?
 

> -- William 
>
> > 
> > Dima 
> > 
> > > This is a 
> > > license aimed at increasing the number of reasons people will buy 
> > > Mathematica, by being nice to developers who are building products 
> > > that use Mathematica. 
> > > 
> > > The discussions like this 
> > > 
> > > 
> https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/274333/wolfram-engine-jupyter-stackrel-mathematica
>  
> > > 
> > > (and the corresponding reddit thread) seem to me to be wildly 
> > > optimistic in their interpretation. 
> > > 
> > > Anyway, I'm not a lawyer, though I applaud Wolfram, Inc. for posting 
> > > that very clearly worded plain language FAQ instead of just some 
> > > massive wall of legalese. 
> > > 
> > > William 
> > > 
> > > > On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 2:24:15 PM UTC-5 kcrisman wrote: 
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> The same could also apply to Cocalc ... except that Cocalc is also 
> a commercial product, therefore excluded from Wolfram terms for the 
> *gratis* Wolfram engine... 
> > > >> 
> > > >> 
> > > >> Technically if someone ran a Cocalc instance (say, from a Docker 
> image) that was not commercial, maybe that would be okay? (IANAL as usual.) 
> > > > 
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