On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 06/23/10 02:35 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> 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. > > What is not permitted to be GPL 3 then?
The core Sage library, since we control it and many people don't like GPL3 so much. > I thought it was a no-no at one point in time. Yep, you're right. It was. But not now. > It seems to be a losing battle, as more and more packages get released, they > will be GPL 3. I noticed the other day that trying to run autoconf/automake > on some code without a "COPYING" file, it automatically puts a file called > COPYING which is GPL 3. WOW! That's incredible. -- William > > Dave > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
