On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:53 PM, bb <[email protected]> wrote: > If I try to write a math-tutorial (or some equivalent introductory text) for > college/high school students about SAGE basics, I sooner or later arrive at > a point to describe the basic of SAGE, say installation and the use of the > different modes (CLI or notebook ... etc.). The handling of that topics > are fixed by the implementation and the predefined mode of SAGE > implementation as well, so I see some problem of plagiarism and of creative > writing in the sense of intellectual originality. > > I never would claim that as my original work! But installation and UI is a > necessary step to use SAGE, (thankfully) predetermined by the creators (or > part of the features of implemantation or the underlying language). I never > would just copy and paste complete passages of a manual, but such a > description of fundamental concepts (installation and UI) do have a degree > of (creative) freedom close to zero!
Sage code and its documentation are licensed under open-source licenses, so feel free to copy+paste. In fact, it is encouraged. Just please license your documentation under the same open source license. Further license information: * Documentation: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ * Sage code: Type license() at the Sage command line. > > My question: What is the proper way to describe such (necessary) basic, > predefined sage-components without breaking copyright and giving proper > credit? > > For sure any doc/tutorial etc. must give reference to SAGE home on different > places of the SAGE document, so my request is just to avoid trouble and to > hear your attitude regarding this point. > > Regards BB > > > > > > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the > words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
