#12375: Create a giac package
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Reporter: frederichan | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: packages: | Resolution:
optional | Merged in:
Keywords: giac | Reviewers: Dima Pasechnik,
Authors: Han Frederic | Jeroen Demeyer
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: public/giac_spkg | Commit:
Dependencies: | d0cee55ac0759159ff985e2f3ab645310a174aba
| Stopgaps:
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Comment (by dimpase):
Replying to [comment:118 jdemeyer]:
> Replying to [comment:114 dimpase]:
> > the author can violate this rather easily.
> Like I said before, no he cannot. The GPL is a license, not a law. The
author (more precisely, the copyright holder) is not bound by this
license. ''Other people'' do have to follow the rules of the license if
they use rights provided by that license.
Do you mean to say you can release binaries under GPL and do not provide
complete corresponding source? Well, obviously the answer is no...
Anyhow, perhaps Sage can redistribute giac with a notice saying that we
don't know the license terms for it.
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