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From: | Judd Storrs |
Subject: | Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software |
Date: | Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:06:56 -0500 |
I just noticed that MathWorks also appears to have changed the Terms of Service for the entire Matlab Central website recently. The current Terms of Service http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/disclaimer.html now includes the following sentence: "All content contained in the MATLAB Central File Exchange may only be used with MathWorks products." According to my reading of the web.archive.org for http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/ from 2002 through the May 10 2008 snapshot (the last I was able to successfully access) the ToS for Matlab Central did not include this statement and I don't specifically see anything in the prior text that would correspond to this new condition. I believe the GPL would be incompatible with this new policy so I would not be surprised if the change in ToS occurred at the same time. I don't think the ToS can limit an octave user's ability to use and adapt BSD licensed code downloaded from Matlab Central? Probably the worst they can do is delete a login based on for ToS violation? They can't use wire-fraud can they? --judd
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