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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 18:29:43 +0100 |
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"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> writes:
> I think we all understand that the GPL clearly forbids distributing the
> resulting binaries.
I think I understood this. I still wondered if I could distribute the
source code and Makefile.
> If your intent is to attempt to avoid the terms of the GPL simply by
> releasing a thin wrapper between Octave and a proprietary library,
I personnaly don't attempt anything. I don't plan on selling
anything. If distributing my source code poses a legal issue, then I
just won't distribute it or try to switch to Matlab but this may require
some work and I'm not sure to have the time.
> You may think you are helping people by releasing this code, but I
> would urge to you not do it and instead work to provide free software
> drivers for the hardware.
I do scientific research. To do this, I choose the acquisition card with
the required datasheet. It happens that National Instruments provides a
free closed-source cross-platform library to interface this card with a
computer.
I don't have the knowledge nor the time to reverse-engineer their card
and write my own driver. End of story.
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