Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software
> To: "Sergei Steshenko" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Joseph Wakeling" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 1:50 PM
> tir, 23 02 2010 kl. 13:27 -0800,
> skrev Sergei Steshenko:
> > I'd put it differently. Scilab used to be released
> under a license which
> > was considered to be non-free by a group of people.
> > 
> > I as an end user couldn't care less - I had both the
> source and and the
> > executable available for my OS (Linux), so I was safe
> from vendor lock-in
> > and other unpleasant things like this.
> 
> While I enjoy a good license-bashing as much as the next
> guy, I do think
> this thread is drifting quite a bit.
> 
> Would it be okay to restrict the discussion in this thread
> to how
> Mathwork's license policy affects GNU Octave, and how (and
> if) we should
> react?
> 
> Søren
> 
> 

I didn't bash any license - if you haven't noticed. Or you meant somebody
else ?

Regards,
  Sergei.