Subject: Reconsidering the GPL licensing of Maxima
From: Wolfgang Jenkner
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:44:52 +0200
Richard Fateman writes:
> Actually, I don't see GPL to be consistent with Bill's intentions, and
> believe the insertion of GPL in later versions (post-DOE-letter) to be his
> mistaken view that he was respecting the DOE perspective (see COPYING
> and COPYING1). Really the DOE perspective was: do whatever you want,
> including commercialization. Bill was not a lawyer.
There can be no doubt that Schelter knew perfectly well the
differences between GPL and, say, LGPL. Please read
ftp://ftp.ma.utexas.edu/pub/gcl/GCL.README
On the other hand, on reading the letter from DOE,
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/misc.shtml
I doubt that its author understood the idea behind the GPL.
Wolfgang