Re: Scilab is now GPL v2 compatible - as the site claims

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Scilab is now GPL v2 compatible - as the site claims
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 10:52 PM
> ons, 17 09 2008 kl. 23:34 -0700, skrev Sergei Steshenko:
> > I've just learned that Scilab (
> http://www.scilab.org/ ) is now GPL v2
> > compatible - this is what the site says.
> 
> Just to clarify: The CeCILL license is explicitly
> compatible with the
> GPL, which is defined as 
> 
> "GNU GPL: means the GNU General Public License version
> 2 or any
> subsequent version, as published by the Free Software
> Foundation Inc.",
> 
> so actually Scilab is GPL v2 (or later) compatible. Since
> Octave is GPL
> v3 (or later) I guess this means that we can take their
> code, but they
> can't take ours?
> 
> Søren

I think your conclusion is correct - since GPL v2 is less restrictive
than GPL v3.

...

Scilab has a really nice function for filter synthesis: frep2tf. I think
it is better than its octave-forge counterpart. Better in the sense of
accuracy.

Regards,
  Sergei.