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Re: Scilab is going to have a free license
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Shai Ayal |
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Re: Scilab is going to have a free license |
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Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:06:43 +0200 |
On Dec 29, 2007 8:21 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:
> And not just a free license, but a GPL compatible too! The CeCILLv2
> license, sometimes favoured in France over GPLv2 because of language
> issues and because they feel like they have to mention the term
> "intellectual property" in their license.
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> Oh, also, this is just off the rumour mill from a Scilab developer:
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> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/12/msg00005.html
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> If it happens this could be good news, as Octave often gets compared
> with Scilab. I wonder if there's any code of theirs that we could
> incorporate...
Actually, reading this email it seems that scilab could benefit quite
a lot from jhandles since it is based on the same java/jogl libraries
that they intend to use for their graphics (and that we intend to port
to c++ for use by octave graphics).
Shai