Re: Reading NI TDMS files

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.
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What you propose is exactly the way proprietary ATI/NVidia drivers are 
distributed.

So, it can be done.

Basically, you can do whatever you want with GPL code as long as you
do _not_ (re)distribute the resulting binary.

Regards,
  Sergei.

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