Re: GNU Octave and GPU computing by Ocelot

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> To: Thomas Weber <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 11:41 PM
> Subject: Re: GNU Octave and GPU computing by Ocelot
> 
> 2012/1/29 Thomas Weber <address@hidden>:
>>  On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:52:19AM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>>  2012/1/27 Michael Goffioul <address@hidden>:
>>>  > I was obviously only referring to the binding source code. AFAIK,
>>>  > Riccardo is free to distribute sources for the octave bindings to
>>>  > Ocelot without any restriction.
>>> 
>>>  "User does the link" is also troublesome:
>>> 
>>>      http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF
>> 
>>  He is distributing source. Nothing prevents him from doing this under
>>  GPL. If this was a problem, no one would have been allowed to build
>>  and link Octave against GotoBlas, for example.
> 
> We should be working on getting free GPU computing. Figuring out ways
> to get around the GPL, whether valid or not, is misguided.
> 
> For example, this project seems promising:
> 
>     http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/clover
> 
> I think a better use of our time is figuring out what can we do to support 
> that.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
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No, I insist on defending my freedom at home, including the freedom to link 
GPL'ed code with whatever licensed code - as long as I don't distribute the 
resulting binary.

Regards,
  Sergei.