On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 5/31/12 11:13 AM, Nathann Cohen wrote: >> >> P.S : I guess many problems can be answered by saying that many pieces >> of code in Sage are licensed with the GPL version, and that the files >> themselves have some specific author. Hence, even owning the Sage >> trademark would not make them able to re-license THESE files without >> their author's consent, and hence it becomes almost impossible to make a >> non-GPL software out of Sage. Though a time could come where they do the >> releases themselves and refuse patches they do not like for their own >> reasons. Okok, looks like these GPL'ed files with multiple owners is a >> good protection already :-) > > > To my understanding, there is a huge difference between owning the trademark > to Sage in this context, and owning the copyright on files. UW is not asking > for the copyright to Sage files. They are asking for the right to legally > defend and use the name "Sage" in connection with this software.
Yes, thanks for the clarification, which I agree with. There is nothing in this discussion about copyright of Sage itself. Sage -- the math software -- is GPL'd with the copyright spread amongst around 500 people, and it will always stay that way. Free forever. > > Jason > > > -- > 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
