On 25 November 2012 17:48, Julien Salort <li...@juliensalort.org> wrote: > 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.
The problem isn't Octave. It's the license of the non-free libraries it's linking to. Matlab's license is even more restrictive and I imagine they would also consider you linking to both libraries to be worse. The GPL is far more permissive than Matlab's license, so I imagine Matlab's EULA would also pose the same problem. If not, I would be happy to be proven wrong and be pointed to the clause in the Matlab EULA that allows you to make derivative work of both Matlab and the non-free libraries you're linking to. I agree that not being allowed to share your work seems problematic, and I am not happy about this either. I am much less happy with how you are forced to use non-free software to communicate with your hardware. You shouldn't be unhappy with Octave. You should be unhappy with the hardware manufacturers who won't let you freely use the software for the hardware you've already bought. - 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
