Re: Some other symbolic math programs...

["Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel@ginac.de>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Nils Barth wrote:
[...]
> PARI/GP -- mostly aimed at number theorists, and I can't find the
> license, but I think it's some kind of open one (it works in emacs
> or uses readline -- I'm guessing GPL).
> http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/A2X/Logiciels.html

No, the license is not compatible with GPL:
: This software is intended as a service to the scientific community, but the
: authors cannot be held responsible for any consequences, either direct or
: indirect, which the use of this package may have. It can be freely copied
: and spread for non commercial purposes, as long as no files are modified,
: and that the whole package (source and manual), including this COPYRIGHT
: file is included.

> Hope these are interesting/useful; could someone start a page
> of ``other free (as-in-freedom) math software'' on the Dr Genius
> site?

I suggest to scan through <http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/A/1/index.shtml> or
<http://horse.mcs.kent.edu/SN/ftpsoftware/ftpsoftware.html> before
starting such a page.

Regards
     -rbk.
-- 
Richard Kreckel, <kreckel@ginac.de>, <http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>