Re: Reading NI TDMS files

[Michael Goffioul]

On 12/18/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 18-Dec-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
> | I guess you mean "distributing some oct-file that links to those DLL
> | in binary format would be a violation of the GPL"
>
> Yes, I should not have been imprecise.
>
> I should also point out that the FSF maintains that distributing an
> interface to a proprietary DLL like this and having the user perform
> the link step is also a violation of the terms of the GPL.  Such an
> interface could certainly not be distributed with Octave.

Would this also apply to an interface distributed in source code form
that a user would have to compile and link? (I don't have any example
in mind, it's more for my own understanding; and it might have an impact
on potential octave applications).

Michael.