Sergei Steshenko <sergst...@yahoo.com> writes: > I am wondering what is more amusing: > > 1) a puppy or a kitten trying to catch its own tail; > 2) a cat chasing laser pointer light spot on a wall or a floor; > 3) GPL proponents shooting themselves in the foot.
I'm not very amused personally. I was wrong to think that Octave was a good choice for instrument control. I wanted something free because I didn't want to rely on restricted licenses for my experimental setups: what happens if the network gets down ? No license server, no instrument control anymore. That seemed unacceptable to me. That's why I've been advocating for Octave to several colleagues. Now I have a bunch of Octave-only code that I can't share with anyone. If I had chosen Matlab in the first place, I would be able to publish the code without restriction. This is very paradoxical and I had not anticipated this problem. I must admit that I should have read Octave license carefully in the first place. But I wrongly thought that careful reading of licenses was only necessary when using proprietary software, because the GPL was meant to protect me, as a user. And I was happy with publishing my own code under GPL too. Now I realise that I would not have had problem if I had gone with Python instead of Octave. I understand why they have a GPL-phobia now. But I have several experimental setups that have been tuned with Octave scripts and switching to Matlab or Python will be too huge a work. So I'll have to stick with Octave, but with no possibility of sharing my code publicly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
