On 24 November 2012 03:33, Julien Salort <li...@juliensalort.org> wrote: > It is my understanding you can link with whatever you want for your personal > usage. > However, DISTRIBUTING a binary that links with NI VISA definitely violates > the GPL. > That is why I don't distribute binaries, only source code.
I've never been clear if this is really ok, but it seems to be a common interpretation. It seems to be, for example, how nvidia gets around Linux's copyleft and the nvidia blob. Richard, can you comment on this? A number of Octave users create oct files to talk to non-free libraries for external hardware. An oct file is basically a C++ program that uses Octave's headers and links to Octave. It is my understanding that these oct files are also linking to non-free libraries. I am uncomfortable that people do this and distribute the results. What do you think? - Jordi G. H. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
