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Re: Who uses Octave?
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Julien Salort |
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Re: Who uses Octave? |
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:16:40 +0100 |
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Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> writes:
>> - Hardware I/O: I'm not sure how easy it it to talk to simple analog and
>> digital I/O cards but
>> haven't heard a lot of success stories yet. The main OS of my students is
>> Windows, other OS are <
>> 10% I would guess.
>
> This has been mentioned a couple of times before. The main problem
> there seems to be the cross-platform issue.
I use Octave in my daily work to communitate with several NI devices
(GPIB card, DAQmx card) using NI-VISA and NI-DAQmx libraries. I've been
running my code on Mac OS X, Windows and now Linux. It is
cross-platform, as long as National Instruments provides libraries for
your preferred platform: no problem on Windows, almost no problem on
Macintosh, tricky on Linux, except if you stick to the supported
distributions (I had it work with Scientific Linux 6.1 but failed on
Debian Squeeze).
I'd be willing to publish my code. I'm just not sure if there is a legal
issue: as I understand it, a GPL program is distributed in binary and
source forms. However, if you link against a proprietary library, the
resulting binary cannot be distributed with a GPL license. Am I right ?
Then my problem is the following:
- I have no problem to publish the source code of my oct files
- Once compiled, they link against Octave libraries (GPL) and National
Instruments libraries (proprietary).
What license should I choose ?
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- Re: Who uses Octave?, Chipmuenk, 2012/02/05
- Re: Who uses Octave?, Michael Goffioul, 2012/02/05
- Re: Who uses Octave?,
Julien Salort <=
- Re: Who uses Octave?, Michael Goffioul, 2012/02/07
- Re: Who uses Octave?, Juan Pablo Carbajal, 2012/02/07
- Re: Who uses Octave?, John W. Eaton, 2012/02/07
- Re: Who uses Octave?, Julien Salort, 2012/02/07
- Re: Who uses Octave?, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso, 2012/02/07
- Re: Who uses Octave?, Przemek Klosowski, 2012/02/07
- Re: Who uses Octave?, Julien Salort, 2012/02/08
- Re: Who uses Octave?, Ron.Simonson, 2012/02/07
- Re: Who uses Octave?, Julien Salort, 2012/02/08
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- Re: Who uses Octave?, Julien Salort, 2012/02/08