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coatless / quarto-webr

Community developed Quarto Extension to Embed webR for HTML Documents, RevealJS, Websites, Blogs, and Books.
https://quarto-webr.thecoatlessprofessor.com/
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[Q&A]: License/Permission to adapt #162

Closed seragunn closed 8 months ago

seragunn commented 8 months ago

What's your question?

Hi,

I've been considering writing a Quarto extension to embed SageMath cells. They're similar to WebR but run on a remote server rather than through Wasm. I'm not going to start right now on this since we're mid-semester but perhaps as a summer project.

I was wondering if you would be willing to add a permissive license or otherwise agree to let me adapt some of your code here so I wouldn't be starting from scratch. I would be publishing my extension most likely under the MIT License.

coatless commented 8 months ago

@trevorgunn given that you need a binder backend, you probably want to stay tuned for some work I'm exploring with Thebe over in coatless-quarto/thebe. At a glance, SageMath already has integration with Thebe through sage_package.

Regarding licensing, I'm planning to use a copyleft license like AGPL over MIT after I land a few more features and clean up the project's backend.

seragunn commented 8 months ago

Thanks! Copyleft is fine by me.

I'll probably stick with SageMathCell over Thebe. It has a faster startup time and is better supported by the sagemath community. But I will stay tuned nonetheless.