Re: Is this copyright/license agreement Octave-compatible

[Muthiah Annamalai]

Josh Rigler wrote:
> Long ago (c.2001), I asked a question on this list about an overly 
> simple copyright/license statement that came with NASA's CDF libraries 
> at the time:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Is-this-an-Octave-compatible-license--tf3314371.html#a9216467
>
> In short, JWE felt that it was inadequate because it tried to restrict 
> 'for profit' redistribution, and more importantly, it tried to restrict 
> modifications to the software.  I had little choice but to keep my CDF 
> toolbox to myself, and sadly, it was never fully implemented, since I 
> never needed more than the ability to read data from existing files.
>   
If you did not know earlier octave-forge (http://octave.sf.net) widely
accepts packages, and serves as a repository for octave code. You
can contribute your package there.

IMHO, a format to save / load octave objects need not be tightly
integrated with the main Octave package itself.

Best,
Muthu