On 7 December 2012 15:00, Scott McGrath <[email protected]> wrote:>
> What most people think about when they hear about open source is code > released under variants of the GPL which require that code released to the > public built with GPL tools be made available for no more than the cost of > distribution ie you can charge for the cost of the optical disk and postage > but no more. > > Scott Whether the source code is open has nothing to do with what the tool chain that might be used. People write open-source code for things like FPGAs which need expensive proprietry tools to load into the FPGA. You can write programs for MATLAB, Mathematica, Labview etc and open-source them. The fact they need pretty expensive software to be of any use is irrelevant. Dave _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
