Re: Terms of use Mathworks file exchange

[Rhys Ulerich]

Hi Jordi,

> This isn't paranoia. They did both things at the same time (purge the
> GPL and add more restrictions) so they obviously did this
> intentionally. Whether they plan to use these legal weapons is another
> matter, but they certainly built them, and I'm not comfortable with
> them having their finger on the trigger, not matter how nice and moral
> they may appear now.

This thread suggests anything submitted to File Exchange ceases to be
FOSS (or at least it'll take cash to untangle the legalities of it).
Presumably a community site for Octave and/or ML scripts far from the
corporate lawyers would be worthwhile.

Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but is there an Octave/FOSS analog to
File Exchange?

I am aware of Octave-Forge.  I'm thinking of a place, like File
Exchange, to pass around useful routines and snippets which aren't
likely worth wrapping up into a complete Octave-Forge package.  Or for
those which might be worth packaging but it hasn't been done due to
lack of either time or skill.

- Rhys