[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: GMP license problem, anyone?

2008-05-30 Thread Bill Hart
What you write is certainly true, and I can't argue with it on general grounds. In this case, however, I don't think GMP will be hurt by a fork. I think eventually one of two things will happen. Either the two projects will diverge significantly (this is quite possible, as we will be unable to us

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: GMP license problem, anyone?

2008-05-30 Thread Bill Hart
It turns out that I had not pressed "reply to all" when sending my message. Thus it went only to Torbjorn and not to his list. This was entirely my fault and nothing to do with Torbjorn. Bill. On 29 May, 23:43, "Bill Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like the moderator of the unmoderated

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: GMP license problem, anyone?

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Bump
> I have read v2 and I started to read version 3 some time ago. Once I > got to all the bits that had been tacked on to a perfectly good > license, i.e. stuff about patent agression, tivoisation, cryptographic > keys, I stopped reading. It's good to remember why GPLv3 has provisions against pat