Re: GPU computing for octave

[Andreas Romeyke]

Hello John,

----- "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> schrieb:
> Are the libraries that you are using all free software?  If you are
> linking them with Octave through the .oct file interface, then the
> GPL
> requires that everything that is linked together be distributed under
> GPL compatible terms.

BrookGPU is distributed under terms of GPL and BSD-License:
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The Brook+-API is part of AMD's Stream-package 
(http://developer.amd.com/Downloads/atistream_1.4.0_beta-lnx32.tar.gzip).

The code written by Ronny Lindner is distributed under terms of GPL, too. 
Because the Octave-plugins calls brook-API and stand itself under terms of GPL, 
there is no problem to link against BSD-License. 

Bye Andreas