On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> There seems to be an agreement to include GLPK, but as I noted elsewhere,
> the package does not build properly on 64-bit Solaris, as the right compiler
> flag (-m64) does not get added. Robert created a ticket for this.

Thanks so much for looking into this.

>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9312
>
> The spkg-install and SPKG.txt are a bit odd, so I'm trying to sort them out.
>
> SPKG.txt says:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> == License ==
>
> The GLPK package is part of the GNU project, released under the aegis of
> GNU.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> but src/COPYING is clearly GPL 3
>
>                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
>                       Version 3, 29 June 2007
>
>
> Are GPL3 packages allowed as standard, rather than just optional? I thought
> there were a no-no.

Yes, they are allowed.  We already ship *many* GPL3 standard packages.

> Assuming the license is not an issue, is there a reason to use version 4.42,
> when 4.44 is the latest? (Both versions are GPL 3).

I don't know of one.

>
>
>
> Dave
>
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