Re: Octave on Android

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On 22 Oct 2013, at 16:58, Corbin Champion <address@hidden> wrote:

> Why do you think it violates the GPL?  What do you want corrected?  

As far as I am concerned I'd like to be able to build Octave for Android myself 
using the build system you developed for your distribution.
This is my right under the terms of the GPLv3 license and I'd like to use this 
right.

> The Octave maintainers are aware of my policy.  

Clearly not all of them where ...
odepkg is not part of Octave but of Octave-Forge which is 

> One of their paid staff even encouraged charging.

No one is objecting charging per se,.

But obscuring the source to force users to pay for your packages, 
I believe that is in violation of the GPLv3 license and Thomas is the 
owner of the copyright of most of the code in the odepkg so he is entitled 
to enforce the license.

> Corbin

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