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Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software |
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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:39:59 -0600 |
2010/2/11 Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:
> Apologies for the offtopic chatter, but I just noticed this as I was
> trying to look for Emacs's Matlab mode to see if I could get some
> ideas for Octave mode. It appears that the Mathworks only allows the
> BSD license on their servers now, which affects much free software
> under other licenses (in particular GPL) that they were hosting.
>
> I hope they did not convince anyone to relicense to one of the BSD
> licenses (there are two of them!). Can you tell?
At last one person was affected:
http://www.aravind.name/matlab-code-relicensed-under-bsd-license
Probably many others too, from a cursory glance in Matlab central, but
this happened overall very quietly.
> As for opposition from a proprietary software company, what else
> would you expect?
I know, but this is a particularly dirty move with intimidation about
removing code and not giving users a choice anymore on how to license
their own software.