On 28 September 2011 08:39, B. Oytun Peksel <oytun.pek...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a very little idea about these license issue. So can you please > decide for me which text to use and I'll use it. Yes I uploaded on the > mathworks website but if there is a problem I can just delete my function > from there since I am much more willing to contribute to an open source > project.
The problematic line is in the terms of use of MathWorks File Exchange (http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/disclaimer.html). More exactly this line 'All content contained in the MATLAB Central File Exchange may only be used with MathWorks products.'. The way I read it, is that one can't get stuff from there and run it on octave. We could not go there, download the code and add it to octave-forge (even though you had chosen a free license). However, you have sent us the file yourself, you have the original (whatever that means) and sent us a copy of it and another to File Exchange. But certainly other people can read it differently and I'm in no way a knowledgable person of legal issues. To resume, the license you choose is not an issue, the hosting in File Exchange is. This problem is possible because the BSD license you chose allows the site where it is hosted to place further restrictions. To prevent this from ever happening, you could use the GPL license (there's probably other licenses that will also prevent it), but then MathWorks won't allow you to have the code there. Sorry to bother you with all this legal stuff, I know it's a pain. Carnë ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
