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.