Re: Private company and code salvation

[charles reid]

Whoops, didn't see the thread continued under a different heading.

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On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:58 AM, charles reid <address@hidden> wrote:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but that doesn't satisfy the original poster's intent.  If you're distributing the source for a mex file, you're not obscuring it.  So, you've solved one problem (allowing company to sell source code that can be used in any matlab-like mex interface), but not another (obscuring the source code).  It sounds like the original question was primarily concerned with protection of source code.

Charles

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- Friedrich Nietzsche

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:00 AM, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:

José Luis García Pallero wrote:
> Hi,
> Two document that is interesting to read:
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> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl-java.html
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> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

Which is why I've always said API and not ABI and advocate the ability
to distribute mex-like code as source that can be linked against Octave
by the user, but never stated that binaries of mex-files or oct-files
can be distributed under anything else but the GPL. The dynamic linking
argument in support of the GPL to force distribute of source under the
GPL doesn't apply here as we are talking about a mex API that is not
Octave specific.

D.

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