Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software

[Søren Hauberg]

tir, 23 02 2010 kl. 13:27 -0800, skrev Sergei Steshenko:
> I'd put it differently. Scilab used to be released under a license which
> was considered to be non-free by a group of people.
> 
> I as an end user couldn't care less - I had both the source and and the
> executable available for my OS (Linux), so I was safe from vendor lock-in
> and other unpleasant things like this.

While I enjoy a good license-bashing as much as the next guy, I do think
this thread is drifting quite a bit.

Would it be okay to restrict the discussion in this thread to how
Mathwork's license policy affects GNU Octave, and how (and if) we should
react?

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