Re: compiling .m files

[Paul Kienzle]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:35:16PM -0600, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 13-Nov-2002, Arnim Littek <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | I note that the original MATCOM stuff what written by a bright spark
> | from the Technion, and was originally released under some form of
> | freebie licence.  The Unix version thereof (dating from late 1995)
> | came in source form, and recently I've tried to find it, but the only
> | copy I've found is a corrupt tarball, so I can't comment any further
> | on the licensing of it.
> | 
> | Maybe someone else has squirreled away a copy of matsrc.Z from 1995
> | and can cast more light on using this as a starting point, since it
> | was written for Matlab V4...
> 
> As I recall, it was released as "free" software but the source was
> heavily obfuscated.  It seemed clear to me that they were not
> interested in free software, but free debugging/beta testers via the
> internet.  Then I seem to remember that Matcom became purely
> commercial, then was bought by the MathWorks.  I think some bits of
> their technology may have finally made it into MathWorks products.

Not so obfuscated that I couldn't write a pretty printer and debug their
license checker when it wouldn't let me in.  Tech support was rather
surprised when I reported the problem!  It was definitely not free code.

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden



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