Re: Octave for Raspberry-Pi Microcontroller/Computer

[edmund ronald]

It is not "illegal" because there is no criminal law against it, just
a license between you and Apple or Apple and the user.

In other words, Apple cannot go to the police and complain if someone
is running Octave on a jailbroken iPad, just as they cannot make
jailbreaking disappear by running to the FBI and having the people who
make jailbreaking tools and the users of independenlty programmed
software put in prison.

If they could they would already have done so.

So I would suggest you release a build package for Octave for iPad,
just as on the Mac, and let people who want to compile it or put it up
on the jailbroken store, Cydia.

And please stop warning people that things are illegal", because the
whole point of democracy is that we have freedom rather than fear.

Edmund


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 4 January 2013 09:35, edmund ronald <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What would be really welcome would be iPad, iPhone and Android versions IMHO.
>
> Corbin Champion <address@hidden> is attempting to get Octave on
> Android. If you want to help him, you should contact him.
>
>> We may not like the Apple attitude, but the devices are really useful,
>> as they are instant-on and zero-maintenance.
>
> The legal issues with locked-down iThings pose a lot of problems for
> free software, so it's not just a matter of not liking their attitude,
> but that their attitude actually forbids GPLv3 software. They don't
> want you to run free software, because they want to make sure they can
> control what software you can install on them, so it's plain illegal
> to get Octave on iThings under some jurisdictions.
>
> - Jordi G. H.