[sage-devel] Re: About license of nauty and poset generator

2015-11-20 Thread Dima Pasechnik
we now have a permission from Brinkmann to release his part of the code under whatever license we see fit; we already obtained a permission from from Brendan McKay to release nauty as a GPLed Sage package, so we are all set for this to go ahead. -

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About license of nauty and poset generator

2015-06-30 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, William Stein wrote: Somewhere must be a well-written essay "Thou shall not restrict your free programs to be almost-free". Here's one of those essays - the author definitely put thought into it: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html Good text. But it do

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About license of nauty and poset generator

2015-06-30 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:09 AM, kcrisman wrote: >> Somewhere must be a well-written essay "Thou shall not restrict your >> free programs to be almost-free". Here's one of those essays - the author definitely put thought into it: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html >> > > W

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About license of nauty and poset generator

2015-06-30 Thread kcrisman
> > Somewhere must be a well-written essay "Thou shall not restrict your > free programs to be almost-free". > > Well, that is the whole GPL/BSD/public domain thing... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this g

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About license of nauty and poset generator

2015-06-29 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, Dima Pasechnik wrote: More about licenses, see http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14110 . They think of their copyright notice as a political statement, I suppose. For what else can be said about forbidding the use for military purposes. Such a licence obviously cannot be e

[sage-devel] Re: About license of nauty and poset generator

2015-06-29 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Monday, 29 June 2015 12:30:20 UTC+1, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > > More about licenses, see http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14110 . This is > a > non-technical issue. Who wants to contact the makers of nauty (and poset > generation program)? I do not want, as I don't know that much about > lic