Re: Scilab is now GPL v2 compatible - as the site claims

[David Bateman]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> ons, 17 09 2008 kl. 23:34 -0700, skrev Sergei Steshenko:
> > I've just learned that Scilab ( http://www.scilab.org/ ) is now GPL v2
> > compatible - this is what the site says.
>
> Just to clarify: The CeCILL license is explicitly compatible with the
> GPL, which is defined as 
>
> "GNU GPL: means the GNU General Public License version 2 or any
> subsequent version, as published by the Free Software Foundation Inc.",
>
> so actually Scilab is GPL v2 (or later) compatible. Since Octave is GPL
> v3 (or later) I guess this means that we can take their code, but they
> can't take ours?

Well Octave changed to GPLv3 relatively recently, so scilab can take 
whatever is in a snapshot prior to that. Any code with my name on it, 
I'd be more that happy to see it reused in scilab under the terms of the 
GPLv2.

D.