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Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite)
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Tatsuro MATSUOKA |
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Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite) |
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Wed, 8 Jun 2016 13:25:59 +0900 (JST) |
>From: edmund ronald
>To: Ben Abbott
>Cc: Sebastian Schöps ; octave-maintainers
>Date: 2016/6/8, Wed 12:49
>Subject: Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X
>Yosemite)
>
>
>
>
>On Wednesday, June 8, 2016, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>On Jun 7, 2016, at 9:48 PM, edmund ronald <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>Does anyone here have any GPL-related legal, ideological or personal
>>>objection to my code-signing an OS X binary and distributing it?
>>>
>>>
>>>Which is the version of the GPL that applies?
>>>
>>>
>>>BTW, as most here realize, Apple's security architecture is going to create
>>>a bunch of headaches with any native Mac distribution - it's going to be a
>>>Red Queen situation, with the Mac maintainers running to keep in place ie.
>>>keep their binary compatible as Apple's rules change.
>>>
>>>
>>>Edmund
>>>ᐧ
>>
>>Can you give us a quick explanation of “code-signing”? Any reason why we
>>can’t do that ourselves and distribute via SourceForge?
>>
>>
>>Octave uses GPLv3.
>>
>>
>>Ben
>
>
>Hi Ben,
>
>
> I would assume you can do anything you want :) and so can I within the
>limits set by the GPL, that is the beauty of free software.
> The code-signing tech is described here:
>https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
> I believe Sebastian is familiar with it, we discussed it a bit at Octconf.
> I personally feel a bit uneasy about Sourceforge, maybe because of this
>event:
>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/
> A lot of people seem to be using GIthub these days, both as source and binary
>repository.
>
>
>Edmund
>
>
According to Oliver, SourceForge changes their policy towards good direction.
See:
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Re-pdepe-td4676565.html#a4677297
Tatsuro
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), (continued)
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2016/06/04
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Ben Abbott, 2016/06/04
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Mike Miller, 2016/06/05
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Ben Abbott, 2016/06/05
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Sebastian Schöps, 2016/06/06
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Carnë Draug, 2016/06/07
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), edmund ronald, 2016/06/07
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Ben Abbott, 2016/06/07
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), edmund ronald, 2016/06/07
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), edmund ronald, 2016/06/08
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite),
Tatsuro MATSUOKA <=
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), edmund ronald, 2016/06/08
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Oliver Heimlich, 2016/06/08
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Oliver Heimlich, 2016/06/09
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Ben Abbott, 2016/06/08
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Sebastian, 2016/06/08
- Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), John Swensen, 2016/06/08
Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2016/06/03
Re: Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite), address@hidden, 2016/06/04