On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Pablo De Napoli<[email protected]> wrote: > > I have left the following comment on the blog... > > "However, the GPL means that people cannot realistically use SAGE in a > commercial tool, either as a platform/runtime, or as an embedded > component." > > What it is the justification for this claim? Why wouldn't the GPL > allow one to use SAGE as a "commercial tool"? > I think that a GPL program like Sage might well have commercial > applications. For instance: you could use Sage for modelling an > industrial process. There is nothing in the GPL against that.
The answer to this was discussed in detail on this list before, in particular in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/27b88b6cd4142b8e/ Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
