Re: GPL, LGPL, and copyleft

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 03/29/2012 05:01 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 03/29/2012 03:36 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> > It's not clear if GU Octave is communicating with Octave in an
> > "intimate enough" way, but I think it is, starting with how the whole
> > program is pretty useless without Octave and how it needs to query
> > Octave to handle large matrices and arrays and data associated to
> > them.
>
> I'm not sure that is true, especially in the case of Octave. The problem
> is that there is this very similar program called Matlab with a
> duplicate command set. GUI Octave could just as well run using Matlab as
> an engine without too much extra effort.

Reiterating what I said in a previous post, the possible infringement I 
see is the use of the word "Octave" in the name "GUI Octave" because 
that implies an association with the Octave project, but that falls 
outside of GPL.  In my opinion, only JWE in this discussion group could 
take legal action on that.

Dan