On 29 November 2012 17:00, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:06:35 PM UTC, jason wrote: >> >> What if they wrote an *GPL* component that linked to R, but then talked >> back to mathematica over a socket? That wouldn't be a violation, right? > > > Thats fine. That part doesn't even have to be GPL, only a GPL compatible > license. Of course you can create a socket just with R make.socket(), so > there isn't really a need for a compiled extension. > > Similarly, we could make a socket interface to MathLink as long as that > piece is not GPL licensed.
Given the MathLink API is published, with the intent of allowing people to write programs to interact with Mathematica, it is not possible to just link to those libraries, the way jmath does? Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
