Re: Including Octave in NCLab

[Pavel Solin]

Hello,

  thank you very much for the prompt reply. Allow me a brief 

explanation why NCLab is not completely free, as you suggested. 

NCLab is free for you and any other individual user and we even 

pay for the cloud resources that you use. But NCLab can't be 

completely free for institutions whose resource utilization is much 

heavier. We are not bored millionaires, unfortunately. But if you 

compare the price o NCLab to any other software such as 

Matlab (where resources are not included), the subscription fee 

for NCLab is embarassingly small. 

I am not sure whether the Octave team has any plans to enable 

free use of Octave in the cloud, but this is exactly what we want 

to do, with the kind permission of Octave developers. This will 

make Octave and other softwares included in NCLab easier to 

use, so everyone should benefit from that. Again - individual users 

will not pay anything for using Octave or other tools in NCLab. 

Sincerely,

Pavel

2012/4/14 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>

On 13 April 2012 22:57, Pavel Solin <address@hidden> wrote:
>   I would like to ask whether it is OK to include Octave in NCLab
> (http://nclab.com).

As far as GPL compliance goes, it's probably ok, if I understand
correctly how it's working. I wouldn't like to endorse non-free
software, though, so if you can make NCLab free, that would be much
preferrable (and if it were free, you wouldn't even have to be asking
us if it's ok to use Octave with it).

- Jordi G. H.

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Pavel Solin
University of Nevada, Reno
http://hpfem.org/~pavel