Re: [OctDev] low level I/O (GPIB, USBTMC, VXI11)

[Francesco Potortì]

Julien Salort:
>> Now I have a bunch of Octave-only code that I can't share with
>> anyone. If I had chosen Matlab in the first place, I would be able to
>> publish the code without restriction. This is very paradoxical and I had
>> not anticipated this problem.

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
>The problem isn't Octave. It's the license of the non-free libraries
>it's linking to. Matlab's license is even more restrictive and I
>imagine they would also consider you linking to both libraries to be
>worse. The GPL is far more permissive than Matlab's license, so I
>imagine Matlab's EULA would also pose the same problem. 

I definitely think not.  I can't imagine the Matlab lawyers ask anyone
to unpublish code that allows Matlab to link with instrumentation.  That
would be against their own interest.

This is a real problem for Octave.  If really it is not currently
possible to publish a wrapper that allows Octave to call an external
instrumentation routine, then adding an exception to the Octave licence
should be considered.

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