Re: Building Octave4Android

[Andreas Weber]

Am 23.05.2014 05:01, schrieb Tatsuro MATSUOKA:
> --- On Fri, 2014/5/23, Doug Stewart wrote:
>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:47 PM, vinukn wrote:
>> I think octave4andeoid uses octave source code,so it should release source
>> code. Can I sell binaries of a GPL software?
>> Yes you can sell Binaries.
>>
>> See:
>> https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#search/android/141dc7b9db357417
> According to the following page, 
> http://wiki.octave.org/Android
> "the source above makes it possible for you to duplicate his work and avoid 
> paying him by undertaking the chore of building Octave for Android yourself. 
> Any person with enough skill could take the Octave sources, Corbin's GitHub 
> repository, and the Android SDK to reproduce his work without the need to pay 
> for anything. Here is the donation dialog "
>
> Important thing is that other people can build octave for Android from the 
> octave source and the repository resources but not charge free or not. 
>
> For the pointer shown by Mike
> https://github.com/corbinlc/octave4android/tree/b3bb7f6
>
> I peer into one of the repository directory 
> https://github.com/corbinlc/octave4android/tree/b3bb7f6de607a99840f8b4e6dd40ae12460d2563/octave/Term/src/jackpal/androidterm
>
> and found java source code.
>
> I think that the pointer to the repository shown on the wiki is wrong.  
>
> Tatsuro 
>
Dear Tatsuro,
Corbin removed most of the sourcecode with commit
6687c0b2826c1ee35496c1679ae756e34fe0d953
Do you think the wiki page should link to a specific commit rather than
the hole repository?

The Link behind "Here is the donation dialog [1]
<https://github.com/corbinlc/octave4android/blob/b3bb7f6de607a99840f8b4e6dd40ae12460d2563/octave/src/com/octave/octaveMain.java#L375>"
already links to the revision Mike posted.

In changeset 6687c0b2826c1ee35496c1679ae756e34fe0d953, there were 27,904
deletions which makes the repo in 23.Mai 2014 almost empty.
Perhaps we should ask Corbin what happened.

I made an update of the wiki page, please add more infos if you think
its not sufficient yet.

-- Andy