Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since we are not lawyers, it is not really useful for us to
> argue about whether Mathworks' restriction is legally effective.
> None of us can do more than make it a shot in the dark.
> It may be legally effective in some countries and not in others.
>
> However, the fact that Mathworks is _trying_ to impose this
> restriction cannot be disputed.  And that is enough to give all the
> developers a good reason to be angry at Mathworks.  Therefore, I
> suggest focusing on the attempt, and the bad intentions it reflects,
> and leaving aside the question of whether it achieves its evil aim.
>

Just for the record and for the fun of it, I had a strange attack of
graphomania and I published a short article about the issue in
root.cz, one of the most popular online computer magazines in our
country:
http://www.root.cz/clanky/jak-omezit-svobodu-aneb-hratky-mathworks-s-licenci-bsd/

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz