Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] execute MATLAB code with mlab_call

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  There are several issues.  One is following the proprietary program's
> >  license, and another is complying with the GPL, which requires that all
> >  of any derivative work be licensed under the GPL.
> >
> >  Then, there's the cultural issue of accomodating non-Free software
> >  within the context of a Free Software project.  Many people believe that
> >  it's not helpfully on the path to a world where we can do everything we
> >  want with Free software, and that seems to be more or less the view of
> >  the FSF.  Of course it depends on your goals, but I thought I should
> >  point out this issue.
> 
> Even ignoring the philosophy and licensing legalities .. it would
> simply stink if folks were writing and GNU RADIO blocks using non-free
> middle environments that most of the GNU RADIO users couldn't use.
> Much better to shimmy in octave. Hopefully most matlab code should run
> with little modification.

Another free option would be to look at scipy, which has all of the
MATLAB/octave-style linear algebra, but uses python as the programming
language.  Definitely an upgrade from the MATLAB programming language.

Eric