Re: Octave on Android

[Thomas Treichl]

> Thomas,
> Was your issue that you could not find the source code and didn't
> realize, as a user, you could make a request for it?  Or did you think
> that charging for GPL licensed programs is not allowed (but actually
> is)?  Trust me, I have struggled over this.  With the various projects I
> have, I actually have a lot of users and get contacted a lot and am
> continuously improving my apps (the number of hours I have for this is
> small, so this may not be obvious).  I expected that others would want
> to contribute time/skill, but I don't get emails about that.  I get
> emails about bugs, feature requests and how to do a particular thing.  I
> also get effectively love letter and hate mail.  I didn't charge for a
> long time, but I now believe (knowing myself) that I will provide a
> better product with some small incentive.  I have made that payment
> requirement have very minimal impact on the users and I have made the
> source code available so it can be modified.  If you know a little
> something about Android and my source code, the payment can be bypassed
> in a couple of ways that doesn't even require source code modification
> (nothing illegal, just the right file in the right place).  Can we tone
> this down a bit?  Can you drop your complaint to Google until you are
> sure there is a valid complaint to be made?
>
> Thanks everyone,
> Corbin

Dear Corbin,

  you must know that I'm the very last person who won't come to an
happy end here. Once again, I'm not talking about GNU Octave Core, the
Core Developers can speak for themselves, I'm talking about OdePkg 0.8.2.

  I'm not very fast in answering emails and meanwhile a lot of people
already have replied, but let's turn time back a few hours to explain my 
point of view this morning:

- Doing a quick
    find . -iname ode23.m
  on my tab gave as a result: surprisingly nothing.

- Doing a quick
    grep -re "ode23" *
  on my tab gave as a result: <whereever>/lib__file5.so

I thought: *hm* binary. Next I got the answer from you:

- You wrote:" require donation" and I thought: definitely not and 
"especially not" if distributed in binary form.

- You wrote:" at least $1" and I thought: not even 1c.

Next I've taken a look at your repo: no OdePkg modifications found *hm*
after that my answer followed.

Now, what I want you to do is:

- Please make all the necessary modifications and scripts available that 
are needed to build OdePkg 0.8.2 as pushed as a package to Google's Play 
Store. I want to have a look at all the codes.

- make a binary package of OdePkg or of GNU Octave that doesn't "require 
donation" to run OdePkg, modify the website at Google Play Store that 
clearly does not say "Currently, only functions if you have made a 
donation." but tells people about "Free as in Freedom".

- make a donation to the Core Octave Development team here
    http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/donate.html
  about any amount that you think honours OdePkg 0.8.2 from the amount
that you've gotten AND really do it!

Best Regards

  Thomas

PS. About that Google ticket: I can't stop that tank at the moment but
once I get contacted I'll tell them that we're in a friendly solving way 
right here on the list - maybe you should do the same.