> We are seriously considering releasing MATPOWER 4 under the GNU General Public > License [1] and are interested in hearing whether this would be viewed as a > positive or negative change from the current terms of use listed on the > MATPOWER > home page [2]. > > The primary change, as I see it, would be to allow anyone to use, modify and > redistribute the code, but only on the condition that their modifications are > released on the same terms. Usually, software distributed under the GPL cannot > be linked with software using an incompatible license (e.g. Matlab, MINOS, > BPMPD, Optimization Toolbox) without some sort of exception. Our intention is > to > permit MATPOWER to be used with Matlab and any other packages a user may have > installed in their Matlab environment, regardless of their respective > licenses. > Based on [3], we would probably include a notice to make this exception > explicit. > > Let me know what you think. > > -- > Ray Zimmerman > Senior Research Associate > 211 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 > phone: (607) 255-9645 > > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html > [2] http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/ > [3] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#InterpreterIncompat >
Dear Zimmerman, My Easter greetings, I would like to know if you already tried to run MatPower under Octave? Is it fully compatible? If it works, it is an excellent idea. I think that way it could be possible to have MatPower under a GNU - General Public License. Sincerelly yours, J.R. Camacho School of Electrical Engineering Universidade Federal de Uberlandia Uberlandia - MG - Brasil jrcama...@ufu.br, jrcama...@ieee.org
