I'll just remove it from the mathworks website.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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
>
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