Re: Compiling Matlab package under Octave

[José Luis García Pallero]

2012/4/30 Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>:
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> --- On Mon, 4/30/12, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Compiling Matlab package under Octave
>> To: "Friedrich Heusler" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Monday, April 30, 2012, 5:43 AM
>> 2012/4/30 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
>> <address@hidden>:
>> > There is no hope of making this work in Octave without
>> the source
>> > code. Try contacting the authors to see if they can fix
>> this.
>>
>> Reading their horrible license:
>>
>>     3. You may not rent or sell any part of
>> EasySpin.
>>
>>     4. You may not use or modify EasySpin or a
>> part of it for other
>>        software which is not freely
>> available at no cost.
>>
>>     5. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or
>> disassemble
>>        EasySpin.
>>
>> i.e. "you may not use this with Octave, and you are not free
>> to modify
>> or understand how it works". By way of comparison, you may
>> sell, rent,
>> modify, use, decompile, and reverse engineer Octave.
>>
>> - Jordi G. H.
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>
> The license is not much worse than GPL.
>
> They even promote free software:
> "
> 4. You may not use or modify EasySpin or a part of it for other software 
> which is not freely available at no cost.
> ".
>
>
> And no, I do not believe that the only true definition of free software is 
> the one of FSF.
>

Mmmm..., the definition of FSF was the first about free software
concept, so I think that free software is the FSF definition of it
Others can give alternatives, but they should use another name in
order to distinguish

Cheers

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