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Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:45:22 -0400 |
On 23-Apr-2005, Dan McMahill <address@hidden> wrote:
| I usually avoid the GPL vs BSD license flamewar, but, by 'non-free'
| here its really 'non-GPL'. Certainly BSD licensed software is free,
| but the GPL would seem to prevent use of BSD licensed plug-ins.
No. The BSD license (the newer one, without the advertising clause)
is perfectly compatible with the GPL.
| But the reality is that sometimes the effort of writing an octave
| interface to non-GPL software is 1% of the effort of replacing the
| other tool. An example would be:
The effort required is not the test that matters. What matters is
whether the resulting binary can be distributed under terms that are
compatible with the GPL.
| In general, I think the plug-in licensing ideas here are unfortunate.
| I could easily envision a company which already provides a matlab mex
| interface to one of their products wanting to release an octave mex
| version too. The amount of extra work for them is minimal and it may
| make some of their customers happy. What it does is prevent people
| who may want to use octave and even contribute improvements from
| using it if they're tied, due to the GPL no less, to using matlab.
Rather than blaming the terms of the free software licenses, I
consider this to be a problem with the non-free software licenses.
jwe
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, (continued)
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, John W. Eaton, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Rafael Laboissiere, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Paul Kienzle, 2005/04/24
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, John W. Eaton, 2005/04/24
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Rafael Laboissiere, 2005/04/24
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/04/24
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Quentin Spencer, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Dirk Eddelbuettel, 2005/04/23
Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, John W. Eaton, 2005/04/23
Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/04/23
Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/04/23
Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, John W. Eaton, 2005/04/23