#12447: update the file COPYING.txt
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Reporter: jhpalmieri | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_work
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: packages | Keywords: COPYING.txt license
Work_issues: fix COPYING.txt | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by kini):
From an email exchange between me and William in October:
{{{
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 06:31, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Keshav Kini <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> On Saturday, October 1, 2011 10:28:28 AM UTC+8, William wrote:
>>>
>>> (2) Sage is GPLv3, which is a license that is perceived as very
>>> corporate unfriendly by many of the top companies that do commercial
>>> software.
>>
>> Last I checked, Sage was GPLv2+. This is stated in COPYING.txt in the
root
>> directory of the latest dev version, too (4.7.2.alpha3). Has something
>> changed?
>
> The complete Sage distribution is GPLv3+. The core Sage library
> (written in Python and Cython) is GPLv2+. However, many of the
> components of Sage are GPLv3+.
}}}
So COPYING.txt should reflect this as well. Currently it says that
everything in Sage is GPLv2+-compatible, which is wrong.
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