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From: | David Bateman |
Subject: | Re: Private company and code salvation |
Date: | Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:53:02 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080926) |
Olaf Till wrote:
Strictly speaking yes, but I'd like some sort of clear statement that this is a situation that the Octave developers understand and will take no action against the company in this case. In any case the defend of accidental support of code in Octave is independent of any funding legally and you'd have to establish a causal link between the two in court to take action. I'd say that would be an uncertain thing.Maybe I am wrong, but if a company distributes proprietary mex-source code that compiles and runs with Octave, the company must surely claim that this is accidental, and the code is intended for Matlab. If they admit that the code is intended to run with Octave, they admit to violate the GPL. If the company provides funding or other support to Octave (wasn't this the original argument?) in order to keep their code running, how can they claim the code is not for Octave?
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