Re: Quick Question about GNU Octave using

[Brad]

I don’t think that is a good way to put it. That makes it sound like user 
programs in Octave must be licensed under GPL restrictions.

> On Jul 9, 2018, at 14:42, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 17:11:15 +0100, Ian McCallion wrote:
>> Surely Octave is merely providing APIs (like android or any other operating
>> system does) and the product is simply a (maybe paid-for) proprietary app.
> 
> If an application uses Octave's APIs, then that application is a derived
> work of Octave and must be distributed under the same GPLv3 terms as
> Octave itself.
> 
> -- 
> mike