[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Franco Saliola
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Brian Granger ellisonbg@gmail.com wrote: Brian, A sage worksheet is no more a derived work of Sage than a jpeg would be a derived work of Photoshop/GIMP or a .doc file would be a derived work of MS Office or OpenOffice. I disagree.  A jpeg or .doc file

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread davidloeffler
Can I use this opportunity to request some reviews for modular forms patches? I decided I'd spend a few afternoons squashing as many easy modular forms buglets as I could, with the result that there is now a bunch of tickets that are [with patch, needs review]. It would be cool to get some of

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread Martin Albrecht
Mon May 11: fix fallout;malb fix os x libsingular (?) Tue May 12: sage-4.0.rc1.tar Wed May 13: Thu May 14: sage-4.0.final.tar Fri May 15: Release sage-4.0.tar. Well, my plan was to update Singular to 3.1 and PolyBoRi to 0.6 during the week mentioned above and I was hoping

[sage-devel] Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello all, I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics ready for Sage 4.0. With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do the final push. There are currently a lot of printing errors since Pynac/GiNaC prints expressions differently than Maxima does. Some things still

[sage-devel] Re: Prime Pi

2009-05-07 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:36 PM, victor miller victorsmil...@gmail.com wrote: Fredrik, I just saw on the SAGE days 15 project list you have the Meissel-Lehmer-Lagarias-Miller-Odlyzko algorithm.  I still have my old C code for this, if that would be a good start.  I never looked in detail at

[sage-devel] papers using Sage

2009-05-07 Thread David Joyner
Hello: At a recent NSF workshop http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/NSF_WS_ECCAD09_Itinerary.html Hoon Hong (managing editor of the J Symb Comp) asked for a list of papers written using Sage by students. The obvious answer was to look at http://www.sagemath.org/library/publications.html but (a) there

[sage-devel] Re: papers using Sage

2009-05-07 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 7, 2:06 pm, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: The impression I got from this conference was that *student* research activity involving Sage is a major plus from the NSF's perspective and more precise quantitative on this might help people get Sage-related grants. That's an

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 1:11 am, Martin Albrecht m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote: Mon May 11:  fix fallout;        malb fix os x libsingular (?) Tue May 12:  sage-4.0.rc1.tar Wed May 13: Thu May 14:  sage-4.0.final.tar Fri May 15:  Release sage-4.0.tar. Well, my plan was to update

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 12:55 am, davidloeffler dave.loeff...@gmail.com wrote: Can I use this opportunity to request some reviews for modular forms patches? I decided I'd spend a few afternoons squashing as many easy modular forms buglets as I could, with the result that there is now a bunch of tickets

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
I spend some time tonight on the gcc 4.4.0 porting problem and there is only little work left to be done: I had resolved all issues in Sage 3.1.2, but neglected to merge all the fixed into subsequent releases. Issues from 3.1.2 (3.4.2): * gmp (gone in MPIR) * ntl (Fixed in ntl-5.4.2.p7.spkg,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2 released (and this time it is the final one)

2009-05-07 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi Michael, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:37 AM, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: All the bits are in the usual place in   http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.4.2/ I am wondering whether pre-compiled binaries of sage-3.4.2 for Ubuntu and others will be

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.2 released (and this time it is the final one)

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 6:41 am, Golam Mortuza Hossain gmhoss...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, Hi Golam, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:37 AM, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: All the bits are in the usual place in  http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.4.2/ I am wondering

[sage-devel] loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread kcrisman
Dear Devel, I am hoping to help the push to 75% by adding some doctests to some of the plotting primitives. But for some reason, the following always occurs: sage: G = some graphics object sage: G == loads(dumps(G)) False Nonetheless, no matter how hard I try, I cannot actually find a

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Jaap Spies
Mike Hansen wrote: Hi Mike [...] If you want to try the code out, there is an spkg and two patches in http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/symbolics/. These should install and apply cleanly to Sage 3.4.2. I tried applying to sage-3.4.2, got: [j...@paix sage-3.4.2]$ ./sage

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 7:16 am, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: Mike Hansen wrote: Hi Mike SNIP ImportError: libpynac-0.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error importing ipy_profile_sage - perhaps you should run %upgrade? WARNING: Loading of ipy_profile_sage

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 plan

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
One more thing: I have updated http://wiki.sagemath.org/plan/sage-4.0 in the wiki with most of the info here, but it might be a good idea to (a) keep it current as things develop (b) add all missing info about projects, i.e. who is working on coverage, etc (c) clean it up in general Signing

[sage-devel] ideas involving sage+maple?

2009-05-07 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I just want to pass along some ideas I got from Sage developers at the recent NSF-CDI conference in Rhode Island. I don't know how feasible they are. (1) One Maple developer suggested that the pexpect interface Sage-Maple could be improved using the Openmaple API

[sage-devel] Re: papers using Sage

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: Hello: At a recent NSF workshop http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/NSF_WS_ECCAD09_Itinerary.html Hoon Hong (managing editor of the J Symb Comp) asked for a list of papers written using Sage by students. The obvious answer was to look at

[sage-devel] Re: papers using Sage

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: David Joyner wrote: Hello: At a recent NSF workshop http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/NSF_WS_ECCAD09_Itinerary.html Hoon Hong (managing editor of the J Symb Comp) asked for a list of papers written using Sage by students. The obvious answer was to look at

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Thu, 7 May 2009 04:10:30 -0700 Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics ready for Sage 4.0. With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do the final push. Thank you very much for working on this. I am really

[sage-devel] Re: ideas involving sage+maple?

2009-05-07 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Thu, 7 May 2009 10:32:56 -0400 David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I just want to pass along some ideas I got from Sage developers at the recent NSF-CDI conference in Rhode Island. I don't know how feasible they are. (1) One Maple developer suggested that the pexpect

[sage-devel] Re: ideas involving sage+maple?

2009-05-07 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Burcin Erocal bur...@erocal.org wrote: On Thu, 7 May 2009 10:32:56 -0400 David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I just want to pass along some ideas I got from Sage developers at the recent NSF-CDI conference in Rhode Island. I don't know how

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
Jaap Spies wrote: Mike Hansen wrote: Hi Mike [...] If you want to try the code out, there is an spkg and two patches in http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/symbolics/. These should install and apply cleanly to Sage 3.4.2. I tried applying to sage-3.4.2, got: [j...@paix

[sage-devel] Re: Torsion Subgroups of Elliptic Curves over Number Fields

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
I noticed something in the code i wrote which can be improved. This is something which was not in Chris Wuthrich's original implementation, so it is my fault. Here's what we do: (1) find an upper bound on the torsion order, i.e. a positive integer N such that the torsion order is certainly a

[sage-devel] Re: loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread Carl Witty
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:01 AM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: I am hoping to help the push to 75% by adding some doctests to some of the plotting primitives.  But for some reason, the following always occurs: sage: G = some graphics object sage: G == loads(dumps(G)) False

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Dodier
On May 5, 8:05 pm, Brian Granger ellisonbg@gmail.com wrote: A sage worksheet is no more a derived work of Sage than a jpeg would be a derived work of Photoshop/GIMP or a .doc file would be a derived work of MS Office or OpenOffice. I disagree. A jpeg or .doc file is not source code

[sage-devel] Re: ideas involving sage+maple?

2009-05-07 Thread Bill Page
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:32 AM, David Joyner wrote: I just want to pass along some ideas I got from Sage developers at the recent NSF-CDI conference in Rhode Island. I don't know how feasible they are. I guess you meant Maple developers? (1) One Maple developer suggested that the

[sage-devel] Re: loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Carl Witty carl.wi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:01 AM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: I am hoping to help the push to 75% by adding some doctests to some of the plotting primitives.  But for some reason, the following always occurs: sage:

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Mike Hansen wrote: Hi Mike [...] If you want to try the code out, there is an spkg and two patches in http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/symbolics/.  These should install and apply

[sage-devel] Re: loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread kcrisman
Because graphics objects don't implement equality (there are no __eq__ or __cmp__ methods defined), so the default implementation is used, which is is (object identity, pointer equality). Carl Ergo, you should implement __cmp__. Umm... how would I do that? Or is you cwitty? Maybe if

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread Yann
On May 7, 3:38 am, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: 1.234567? +1 1.234567?1 is more -1 Nick +1 on this example... I don't want to look stubborn but let's try another vote (it´s my last comment on this thread...) sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.? or sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.±1

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Mike Hansen wrote: Hi Mike [...] If you want to try the code out, there is an spkg and two patches in

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Burcin, On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Burcin Erocal bur...@erocal.org wrote: I guess the first patch is a collection of my patches sitting on trac, so I didn't read it. Is this right? Yep. Some minor comments after reading the 2nd patch:  * does new_Expression_from_GEx() really need

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: [...] Delete constants.so: $ rm devel/sage/build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/sage/symbolic/constants* $ rm devel/sage/build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/sage/symbolic/constants* $ rm devel/sage/build/sage/symbolic/constants.so Then teragon:sage-3.4.2 wstein$ sage

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Yann yannlaiglecha...@gmail.com wrote: On May 7, 3:38 am, Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com wrote: 1.234567? +1 1.234567?1 is more -1 Nick +1 on this example... I don't want to look stubborn but let's try another vote (it´s my last comment on

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread Nick Alexander
sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.±1 -2 to unicode or whatever lets you type $\pm$. As for the fact that 4.? is confusing to people who know nothing about sage, that does not concern me in the slightest. I find lots of things that I know nothing about confusing! Nick

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
2009/5/7 Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com: sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.±1 -2 to unicode or whatever lets you type $\pm$. As for the fact that 4.? is confusing to people who know nothing about sage, that does not concern me in the slightest.  I find lots of things that I know nothing about

[sage-devel] Re: loads(dumps(G)) for G a graphics object

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:06 AM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Because graphics objects don't implement equality (there are no __eq__ or __cmp__ methods defined), so the default implementation is used, which is is (object identity, pointer equality). Carl Ergo, you should

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Tom Boothby
I just found this thread, sorry for weighing in late. Note: this is a light-hearted response to a topic which I consider very grave. It's been claimed that the script from sage import Integer print Integer(2)+Integer(2) must be GPL'd. I claim that the above is a sage-ultralight script. I've

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
John Cremona wrote: 2009/5/7 Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com: sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.±1 -2 to unicode or whatever lets you type $\pm$. As for the fact that 4.? is confusing to people who know nothing about sage, that does not concern me in the slightest. I find lots of things that I

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
Thanks for taking the time to explain, Jason. 2009/5/7 Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com: John Cremona wrote: 2009/5/7 Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com: sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.±1 -2 to unicode or whatever lets you type $\pm$. As for the fact that 4.? is confusing to people who

[sage-devel] return type for coefficient,

2009-05-07 Thread Soroosh Yazdani
Hi, this might be a design decision, so I haven't filed a bug report for it yet. However, it seems that coefficient is returning the wrong type when it's called on multinomials. Here is an example code: sage: K.x,y,z=QQ[] sage: f = x^3+y^3+z^3 sage: f.coefficient([3,0,0]).parent() Multivariate

[sage-devel] Re: strange rounding with SymbolicArithmetic

2009-05-07 Thread Yann
On May 7, 9:24 pm, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for taking the time to explain, Jason. 2009/5/7 Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com: John Cremona wrote: 2009/5/7 Nick Alexander ncalexan...@gmail.com: sage:RIF( 3 , 3.2 ) 4.±1 -2 to unicode or whatever

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Granger
Note: this is a light-hearted response to a topic which I consider very grave.  It's been claimed that the script from sage import Integer print Integer(2)+Integer(2) must be GPL'd.   I claim that the above is a sage-ultralight script. I've attached an independent implementation of

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Tom Boothby tomas.boot...@gmail.com wrote: I just found this thread, sorry for weighing in late. Note: this is a light-hearted response to a topic which I consider very grave.  It's been claimed that the script from sage import Integer print

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Granger
I disagree.  A jpeg or .doc file is not source code in any sense of the word, thus the GPL is completely irrelevant (I think we agree on that). That simply isn't so. To quote the GPL: This License applies to any program or other work ... The Program, below, refers to any such program or

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Alfredo Portes
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That FAQ entry which you partially quoted concludes with A consequence is that if you choose to use GPL'd Perl modules or Java classes in your program, you must release the program in a GPL-compatible way, regardless of

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Alfredo Portes doyenatc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That FAQ entry which you partially quoted concludes with A consequence is that if you choose to use GPL'd Perl modules or Java classes in your

[sage-devel] Re: return type for coefficient,

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
It is a documented feature -- look at the docstring which says def coefficient(self, degrees): Return the coefficient of the variables with the degrees specified in the python dictionary \code{degrees}. Mathematically, this is the coefficient in the base

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread John Cremona
2009/5/7 Brian Granger ellisonbg@gmail.com: I disagree.  A jpeg or .doc file is not source code in any sense of the word, thus the GPL is completely irrelevant (I think we agree on that). That simply isn't so. To quote the GPL: This License applies to any program or other work ... The

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Tom Boothby
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Brian Granger ellisonbg@gmail.com wrote: He, he.  For the above script to run in sage-ultralight, sage-ultralight must have the same name as sage.  Then you get into copyright/trademark related issues (the name sage is already taken).  Just the same I

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Granger
sage-ultralight must have the same name as sage.  Then you get into copyright/trademark related issues (the name sage is already taken).  Just the same I could create a GUI toolkit named Qt that was also released under the SACL license, but you can guess what would happen. Incorrect.  

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 7, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: Hello all, I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics ready for Sage 4.0. With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do the final push. There are currently a lot of printing errors since Pynac/GiNaC prints

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Brian Granger ellisonbg@gmail.com wrote: * The JPEG stands on its own and can be used independently of GIMP. Beware... copyright law is more about copying and distribution, than about use. Besides, when I post a notebook, or publish a sage script in a book,

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
Gee... is Sage a trademark? Besides, I don't think a trademark is that strong... E.g. firefox is a trademark of mozilla. Debian doesn't want to be bound by the terms of use of said trademark, so the rename the program to iceweasel. All visible occurrences of the name firefox are replaced by

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread root
Gee... is Sage a trademark? Besides, I don't think a trademark is that strong... E.g. firefox is a trademark of mozilla. Debian doesn't want to be bound by the terms of use of said trademark, so the rename the program to iceweasel. All visible occurrences of the name firefox are replaced

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Gonzalo Tornaria torna...@math.utexas.edu wrote: Gee... is Sage a trademark? Yes, Sage is a trademark. It's not mine though. It is explicitly listed here: http://www.sagenorthamerica.com/copyright_trademarks/ Another company changed their name to Sage

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On May 7, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: Hello all, I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics ready for Sage 4.0.  With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do the final

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On May 7, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: Hello all, I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics ready for Sage 4.0. With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread mabshoff
On May 7, 5:04 pm, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: William Stein wrote: SNIP wst...@sage:~$ ginsh ginsh - GiNaC Interactive Shell (ginac V1.4.1) ... sqrt(2)^2; 2 I've added this to the wiki. It might be useful, if possible, to make sage -ginsh launch ginsh, or

[sage-devel] Re: Symbolics and Sage 4.0

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:10 PM, mabshoff mabsh...@googlemail.com wrote: On May 7, 5:04 pm, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: William Stein wrote: SNIP wst...@sage:~$ ginsh ginsh - GiNaC Interactive Shell (ginac V1.4.1) ... sqrt(2)^2; 2 I've added this to the

[sage-devel] Re: JavaScript Graph editor

2009-05-07 Thread Rado
New version is up: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~rkirov2/processing/grapheditor.html The short changelog: 1) By popular demand, when you drag a vertex out of the page the edges turn red to indicate you are going to lose it and it is not erased until you release the button. 2) There is an

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Dodier
Brian Granger wrote: Are you arguing that jpeg's produced by GIMP are all GPL'd? No. I agree that it is definitely possible to release non-programs, such as JPEGs, under the GPL. OK, I misunderstood. I thought you were claiming just the opposite. Robert Dodier

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Dodier
Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: Auch... then, if I take GIMP source code, and carefully translate it 100% into, say... lisp, then the resulting work is not a C++ program, and therefore not a derived work. Careful. I'm pretty sure a translation (be it from natural language or computer language) is a

[sage-devel] Sage Lightweight LiveCD feedback.

2009-05-07 Thread Lucio Lastra
Hi everybody, I built a LiveCD with Sage that intends to be minimal in all senses. It has some rough edges yet and much to be improved, that's why I invite you to download it from here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/luciolastra/isos/v2/ try it out and give me any feedback (bugs,

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Granger
Indeed... but the OP claimed that a jpeg couldn't be a derived work of gimp because it's not a C++ program, which is a non sequitur. Do you actually think a JPEG is a derived for of GIMP or do you disagree with how I was arguing? If you merely disagree with my argument, please don't misquote

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread kcrisman
Most of all, everyone, please go read the damn GPL! Out of curiosity, does anyone on the list actually know a lawyer at FSF? I wouldn't be surprised if someone does with all the Boston connections. If so, getting even a small piece of FSF's official position, without all the IANAL stuff, on

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 7, 2009, at 8:53 PM, kcrisman wrote: Most of all, everyone, please go read the damn GPL! Out of curiosity, does anyone on the list actually know a lawyer at FSF? I wouldn't be surprised if someone does with all the Boston connections. I think (hope) that the restrictions and

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-07 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Brian Granger ellisonbg@gmail.com wrote: Indeed... but the OP claimed that a jpeg couldn't be a derived work of gimp because it's not a C++ program, which is a non sequitur. Do you actually think a JPEG is a derived for of GIMP or do you disagree with how

[sage-devel] Re: JavaScript Graph editor

2009-05-07 Thread Rob Beezer
Looking real good. I like the red edges prior to deletion when you drag outside the canvas. I've now run this on two machines - one is 32-bit, one 64-bit. Otherwise pretty much the same - recent Firefox on KUbuntu, approx 3GHz chips. The editor is very crisp and robust on the 32-bit machine.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Lightweight LiveCD feedback.

2009-05-07 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Lucio, Got a command prompt, entered startx, chose Sage off the fluxbox menu. Got a terminal window and the Sage banner. A few seconds later and the terminal window closed. Now every time I choose Sage off the menu, the terminal just blinks and immediately closes. Running ./sage from a