>> Is there a problem with the license of the aldor compiler >> (aldor-combinat itself is GPL2). > > Yep, I believe so. From the website; Version 1.1 of Aldor has been > released in source form under the Aldor Public License 2.0. This allows > free non-commercial use, modification and re-distribution of Aldor > software > > This is only my personal opinion: "This allows free non-commercial use" > seems unacceptable to the principles of Sage. Am I mistaken or does this > not apply to the aldor compiler itself?
Well, "free non-commercial use" is incompatible with the GPL. The APL2 is incompatible with the GPL. Sage is GPL. I know that this causes endless problems of getting more people interested in Aldor. Unfortunately, I cannot make Aldor truely free. There are other people who must do it. However, what we do in Aldor-Combinat cannot be done so elegantly in any other language I know off. We learned a lot from MuPAD-combinat, but our design is completely different from MC, since Aldor is so powerful. Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Aldor-combinat-devel mailing list Aldor-combinat-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aldor-combinat-devel
