Re: Final call for bug reports

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On 16 Oct 2013, at 08:40, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:

> 5) The copyright added to files created via "edit sample1.m" shouldn't be 
> added.  Or the GNU copyright notice creation could be an input option, such 
> "gnu", "gpl" or "license".  There is no reason that the code generated by a 
> user should fall under the GPL or any other license.  It's the user's 
> prerogative to release original code under a license.  Here is the text from 
> the GPL:

This is already optional, the user's choice can be set via 

  edit license

the relevant section of the help for command "edit" says:

`license'

         `gpl'
               GNU General Public License (default).

         `bsd'
               BSD-style license without advertising clause.

         `pd'
               Public domain.

         `"text"'
               Your own default copyright and license.

          Unless you specify `pd', edit will prepend the copyright
          statement with "Copyright (C) yyyy Function Author".

As Octave is Free Software and one of its aims is to promote Software Freedom
I think it is reasonable to have 'gpl' as default as long as users can change 
that setting ...

c.