Hi Marshall! On 13 Nov., 19:53, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see why optional packages should not try to install their > dependencies.
The reason is the licence. Gap_packages (or at least the SmallGroups library) is not GPL. I was told that a GPL package must not install a non-GPL package. For the same reason, gap_packages can not be a standard spkg -- it must be the user's own decision to install the non- GPL package. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is what Michael Abshoff, William Stein and David Joyner told me. Cheers, Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
