Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2010/2/11 Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:
>    Apologies for the offtopic chatter, but I just noticed this as I was
>    trying to look for Emacs's Matlab mode to see if I could get some
>    ideas for Octave mode. It appears that the Mathworks only allows the
>    BSD license on their servers now, which affects much free software
>    under other licenses (in particular GPL) that they were hosting.
>
> I hope they did not convince anyone to relicense to one of the BSD
> licenses (there are two of them!).  Can you tell?

At last one person was affected:

     http://www.aravind.name/matlab-code-relicensed-under-bsd-license

Probably many others too, from a cursory glance in Matlab central, but
this happened overall very quietly.

> As for opposition from a proprietary software company, what else
> would you expect?

I know, but this is a particularly dirty move with intimidation about
removing code and not giving users a choice anymore on how to license
their own software.