Re: Mathworks hosting GPL'd software

[Carlo de Falco]

On 18 Feb 2010, at 08:48, asha g wrote:

> Okay, I am beginning to understand. Now I have never gone into the  
> Mathworks site and have managed to use Octave without it. I am  
> wondering how their restrictions will affect users of OCtave and  
> other similar software- I mean are we dependent on their site ?

No, we are not.

Actually, as others have already noted in this thread, this move by  
the Mathworks will probably end up being
an opportunity for the Octave community. Users of the mathworks  
website who do not agree with the
new restrictions can probably be convinced to contribute to Octave and  
Octave-Forge rather than to a proprietary
project that is trying to impose restriction as to who they can give  
their code to.

> Thanks
> Asha  G

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