Iran, copyright, Matlab and Octave

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 10 April 2013 07:35, Júlio Hoffimann <address@hidden> wrote:
> What?!

I think Paryshaan is talking about how Iran doesn't have copyright
law, i.e. there is no "copyright infringement" in Iran. It's one of
the few countries that didn't sign the Berne convention. That means
that in Iran, it is not illegal to violate Matlab's license. If
Iranians want Matlab without the price tag, they can already legally
get that without needing Octave, except that The Mathworks apparently
tries to restrict access to its website to Iranians.

However, even without copyright law, it is not possible to get the
source code for all of Matlab, to study it and modify it, so you can't
really exercise all of your software freedom with Matlab. This still
seems like an  important reason to prefer Octave over Matlab, even in
Iran.

- Jordi G. H.