Re: Building Octave without xcode

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 25, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> 2010/12/25 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>> 
>> Xcode includes "open source" software with licenses that do not meet
>> the requirements of "free software".
> 
> No, I don't think they do. All of the open source tools in Xcode
> except perhaps Sente, which I've never heard of before, are also free
> software.

I took a second look.

Some of the open source software included with Xcode is licensed under APSL-v2. 
This includes the 64 bit linker and cctools. While APSL-v2 is a GPL 
incompatible, it does quality as a "free software" license.

Thanks for the clarifications and discussion.

Bem