Embeding Octave and the GNU GPL license

[Philipp Leser]

 

> Please also remember that if you embed Octave, your program is subject

> to the terms of the GNU GPL.  Philipp, is your program be free

> software?

> 

> jwe

 

 

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| Hey jwe;

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| actually we are not a hundred percent sure how to handle the situation. We are no GPL license experts, so your input would be highly appreciated. I want to emphasis here that we are a huge fan of the open source concept in general and most definitely don’t want to abuse it.  

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| What we would like to do is the following:

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| Create some sort of web service to provide solution of certain optimization problems to other applications ( for finding shortest paths or the like ).

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| Those applications that would make use of these services are non GPL (

| I believe ). Would it accord to the GPL to implement such a service (

| and license it under GPL ) and use these services from non GPL

| programs? ( In a sense I would believe that I can have a non GPL

| program making use of say the Apache Web Server to load some files

| without violating the GPL )

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| But of course, I may be totally wrong here.

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| regards

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