Re: Octave as commercial applications calculation core

[Markus Bergholz]

Am 27.09.2013 11:07 schrieb "schallb" <address@hidden>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to use Octave as alternative "calculationCore" in a commertial
> application.
> I've written plugins, linkable as dll, for Octave and Matlab.
>
> Now i am not sure if i can use the Octave Plugin in a commercial
> application. It is not possible to release the commercial Software under
> GPL. The Plugin can be GPL for shure. It only offers a .Net Interface to
> call Ocatve functions over a defined interface ICalculationCore.
>
> Does anybody know how to handle this? I've spent hours of hours reading GPL,
> but i'am not really one step further :-/
>
> Worst case szenario would be to skip the usage of Octave and only "allow"
> the Matlab interface.
>

IMHO, you have to name octave and its licence and offer the changes you've made on octave as sourcecode too.
But i don't know if you could ship both together in one installer. Every rotten GUI for octave (qtoctave, xoctave, guioctave...) was/is offer without octave for example. So worst case is your users have to install it separatly by thereself. (or you offer octave binary installer separatly)

And perhaps - i'm absolutly wrong :)

> Thank you in advance for help!
> BR Bertram
>
> <http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n4657686/CalcCorePlugins.jpg>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Octave-as-commercial-applications-calculation-core-tp4657686.html
> Sent from the Octave - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> _______________________________________________
> Help-octave mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/listinfo/help-octave